Music Distribution on Spotify 

Spotify is a commercial music streaming service providing digital rights management-restricted content. Music can be browsed or searched by artist, album, genre, playlist, or record label. Free subscriptions can listen to music, interrupted by targeted advertisements. Paid "Premium" subscriptions remove advertisements and allow users to download music to listen to offline.
The service has also introduced social functions such as the ¨Follow¨feature which allows following friends or artists, and verified artist profiles.

Spotify was launched in October 2008 by Swedish startup Spotify AB.  As November 2020, the service has approximately 320 million monthly active users with 144 million paid subscribers.

Service Type

Spotify offers music via on-demand streaming only.
Streams are offered in DRM-enforced Vorbis q5 or q9 format.

Territories

available in Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Bolivia, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Guatemala, Honduras, Hong Kong, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malaysia, Malta, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Norway, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Singapore, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States, and Uruguay.

Go Live Time

 It takes between 24-48 hours after delivery to have your tracks available in Spotify.

Pay rate

Paid Streams: You get paid a proportionate share of subscription revenue per month calculated on terms set out in our agreement with the store (this usually excludes streams during a subscriber's free trial). Payments will fluctuate each month, depending on the amount of subscription revenue generated and how many times your music was streamed.

Spotify Analytics

Spotify Analytics is the free tool that gives labels and distributors the data they need from Spotify by providing streaming stats and understand performance across your entire catalog.

If you run a label that has music on Spotify, you can use Spotify Analytics to access a number of features that aren’t available in Spotify for Artists—including album-level data, custom date ranges, playlist submission, and CSV export for every chart. In the coming months we’ll be adding even more features, and we want you to be ready to take advantage.

We recently updated the onboarding process to make it simpler and more secure for you to get access to your catalog in Spotify Analytics. To sign up, you’ll need a Spotify account, your work email address, and—if you’re the first person from your organization to request access—the URIs of at least 3 albums or songs that you’ve previously delivered to Spotify.
Head to analytics.spotify.com to get started.