A dated record of what we add and correct on this site. Corrections are listed as openly as additions.
28 October 2026
New guides (25)
- A Content ID Claim on Your Own YouTube Video: Why and What to Do
- Amazon Music for Artists: Claim, Stats, Alexa and Pitching
- Apple Music Motion Artwork: The Rules That Get It Rejected
- Apple Music for Artists and Shazam: Who Fixes What (2026)
- Audiomack for Artists: Verification, AMP Payouts and Supporters (2026)
- Concerts and Merch on Your Spotify Profile: How They Get There
- How Spotify Counts Your Streams: the 30-Second Rule and More
- How to Get Your Lyrics on Spotify and Apple Music
- How to Get a YouTube Official Artist Channel
- Music Videos on Spotify: Uploading Full-Length Videos, and the End of Clips (2026)
- Release Calendar 2027: National Days and Occasions
- Releasing Music for Eid and National Days
- Releasing a Song on a Leased Beat
- Releasing a Traditional or Public Domain Song
- Single, EP or Album: How Stores Decide
- Song Credits on Spotify and Apple Music: Producers, Writers, Engineers
- Songwriter Royalties in the Arab World: Which Society Collects Where (2026)
- Spotify Artist Profile Images and Artist Pick: Specs and Rules
- Spotify Canvas: Specs and How to Add One
- Spotify Countdown Pages: Who Qualifies and How They Work (2026)
- Spotify Marquee and Showcase: Eligibility, Budget and Who Can Buy (2026)
- What 27 Music Distributors Publish About Payouts: October 2026 Report
- YouTube Topic Channels and Art Tracks, Explained
- Your Spotify Artist Bio: the Rules and How to Write One
- How to release a cover song legally, and keep it online
New tool: Synced lyrics maker (LRC), free in the browser
Open data: The distributor payout terms dataset grew from 13 to 28 distributors (version 1.1.0), each row with its official source. /open-data/distributor-payout-terms/
Corrections
- 22 of the new guides are now available in 24 languages.
- New free tools: a release title checker and a US royalty withholding rate finder.
- The open dataset now covers 30 distributors (version 1.2.0).
- New policy pages: how to ask for a decision to be reviewed, and how to report a copyright problem with a release.
- The split sheet page no longer jumps while it loads.
- A factual error about a Saudi collecting society was removed from the mechanical rights guide.
- Dates on Chinese, Japanese and Korean pages now use the local format.
- Placeholder labels left over from page templates were removed from 243 pages.
25–26 October 2026
- The wording about our terms now reads the same everywhere: no upload fee, no subscription and no per-release fee, with the revenue share set out in the written agreement.
- About, contact, terms, privacy, FAQ and how-it-works pages were published in 23 languages.
- Machine-translation errors were corrected on 322 pages in ten languages.
- Internal links that went through redirects were updated across the site.
- Status labels on platform pages were replaced with plain descriptions.
- The open dataset of distributor payout terms was first published, under CC BY 4.0.