How can publishers access their Spotify stats and identify streaming trends? There is a totally free tool for that: Spotify for Publishing! This tool allows publishers to view analytics in their catalogs, see which playlists are driving engagement, view the real-time trendssee data on cover versions of a composition, and track daily stream stats,” says Paris Kirk, who leads Spotify Songwriter Relations.
Spotify Stats: How to find your Spotify stats for Publishing works
Spotify for Publishing is Spotify’s first analytics portal created especially for publishers, which provides insights both at the composition and catalog level. Since launching in late 2017, publishers around the world have used the product to better visualize and understand their data.
Before Spotify for Publishing this tool was known as Spotify Publishing Analytics.
The analytics tool uses publisher-provided data to provide a visual representation of a publisher’s catalog. It’s available for all publishers who can export catalog data as a CWR file (Common Works Registration). The reflection of this publisher-supplied data is then aggregated at both the song and record levels.
What Spotify stats can be viewed-how to check spotify stats
Via Spotify for Publishing, publishers are able to see the following stats:
- global analyzes of the next day, including songwriter-specific overviews,
- global and territory-specific streaming statistics,
- information about playlists,
- listener demographics and other publisher-specific tools,
with exportable reports available for everything.
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Advantages of having Spotify statistics available
Being able to consult Spotify statistics allows editors to have a whole series of advantages, let’s look at the main ones:
1. Administrative and revenue tracking
Spotify for Publishing offers suggestions to help publishers discover tracks that may be associated with their work data. ISRCs are displayed throughout and full catalog ISRC exports are available, so publishers can better track registrations of their works and improve the information they are able to share with collecting societies around the world .
2.A&R
A&R can measure the impact of a particular release and overall performance both at the job level and for specific recordings, which they can communicate to their writers and leverage targeted streaming data when pitching for co-writes/camps and to support settlement decisions.
3. Marketing and synchronization
Understanding the basic demographics around which listeners are embracing particular recordings increases in value the more recordings there are. Sync teams can leverage this information to present the particular recording of your work that most appropriately appeals to the demographic a brand, agency, or music supervisor is looking for.
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How to get free access to the Spotify for Publishing platform
If you are a music publisher and are interested in seeing analyzes of your works, you can request access here. There is no cost to sign up for this tool.
Note that currently, Spotify can grant access only to publishers who can provide details of the works they represent in CWR format.
What is CWR format
Common Works Registration (CWR), as the name suggests, it is a common format or standard for recording and reviewing musical works. CWR provides all the data elements needed for a publisher to register a work with a Performance or Mechanical Rights Society.
It also provides a means for monitor the status of the registration and facilitates communication between publishers and companies.
By using a common standard for process work registration, both publishers and performing rights companies benefit from a more efficient process
registration system. The common format results in a more accurate flow of song data between publishers and companies and in return results in cost and time savings while increasing the accuracy of royalty payments.
CWR users span the globe. The number of publisher and company performance rights and users continue to increase. Those managing the recording of musical works are encouraged and encouraged to develop and use the standard CWR recording format. Every new CWR user helps achieve the ultimate goal of having a common format where information is shared between music publishers and performance rights societies.
These catalog management tools are able to export your works as CWR:
- Music Maestro
- ALV ·
- Backbeats
- Music Data Services
- Django Music Publisher (DMP)
- That green thing