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Curators add only what they love. You pay for a guaranteed review, not a placement.
A marketplace where independent artists send their songs to vetted Spotify playlist curators and get a written review back. You pay for a guaranteed review, not a placement. If a curator loves your song they can add it to their playlist, but that is always their call.
No. You pay for a curator's time to listen and write feedback. Curators earn the same amount whether they accept or decline, so there is no incentive to say yes. Accepting a song is always the curator's own call.
No. You pay for a guaranteed review, not a placement. Every submission gets a written review within 72 hours, or your credits come back. Curators decide freely what they add, and a decline is normal: even great songs don't fit every playlist. You can check each playlist's acceptance rate before you send.
No, never. We don't ask for your Spotify password or access to your account. We only read public information, through Spotify's official API and licensed music-data providers: song details, playlist details and follower counts. Curators don't log in either: we check that a playlist is theirs without ever touching their account.
Credits are what you use to send a song to a playlist. Each playlist shows what a submission costs before you send, and bigger playlists cost a little more. The smallest pack is 10 credits for $10.00. Credits never expire.
Look at three things before you send. The acceptance rate ("Accepts 40%") is the share of songs reviewed in the last 90 days that a curator added, with wrong-genre calls left out; it shows as New until there are 10 reviews in that time. The health score (0–100) shows how reliably a curator answers on time, writes useful feedback and keeps added songs on the playlist. And genre fit matters most: "Best matches" only lists playlists whose genres match your song, and a playlist that fits your sound is a better bet than a bigger one that doesn't.
Most do. When you add a song you pick the language of its vocals, or Instrumental. Curators choose which languages each playlist accepts: all languages, a few specific ones, or "not relevant" for playlists where vocals don't matter, like lo-fi, ambient or classical. Best matches only lists playlists that take your song's language, each playlist shows what it accepts, and you can filter the market by language. Instrumentals fit everywhere.
Curators have 72 hours. We nudge them at 48 hours, and if they still have not responded the submission expires and your credits are refunded automatically.
Every review includes written feedback of at least 150 characters. Copy-pasted feedback is blocked, and you can rate each review so low-effort curators lose health score.
A wrong-genre decision refunds your credits in full and pays the curator nothing. It also counts against curators who use it too often, so it is not a shortcut for them.
The curator adds it to the playlist within 48 hours of accepting, and it must stay for at least 30 days. We keep checking the playlist, and sometimes ask you to confirm it's there. If an accepted song never makes it onto the playlist, we refund your credits automatically.
The curator gets a heads-up first and 3 days to put it back. If they don't, it counts as a strike against them, and from a curator's second active strike on, you're refunded for that song. If your song is taken down from Spotify itself, its placement simply ends: no strike, no refund, nothing for you to do.
Only if the review itself broke the rules: the feedback is too short, generic or copy-pasted, isn't about your song, or is rude. Disagreeing with a decline or with the curator's taste isn't a reason. Most refunds need no dispute at all: missed deadlines, wrong-genre calls and songs that were never added are refunded automatically. If a review did break the rules, use "Report a problem" on the review within 7 days. Clear cases are decided automatically by our rules and an AI check, and you can always ask a person to look again through Help. If it's upheld, your credits come back.
Yes, from the Connected artist card on your Songs page, once every 30 days. Songs that don't credit the new artist move out of your Songs and can't be sent any more, but nothing is deleted: reviews still in progress finish, songs already on playlists stay live with their 30-day minimum, and your history stays in Submissions. Switch back later and those songs return. Want to promote several artists at once? Pro and the bigger plans let you add more artist profiles instead.
Not within 30 days. After that you can resubmit, for example after a remix or a new release. If the curator didn't review it in time, your credits come back and you can send it there again right away. A playlist that accepted a song can't get it again.
One of the best-paying platforms for playlist curators. You earn a fixed number of credits on every review you complete, accepted or declined. Bigger playlists pay more per review, up to $5.60 per review on the biggest playlists with Curator Premium. Once you sign up, your curator dashboard shows exactly what each of your playlists earns per review.
No. You're paid for reviewing, whether you accept or decline. Accepting never pays more, so add only what you'd add anyway. The one exception: marking a song as the wrong genre refunds the artist and earns nothing, so save it for songs that really don't fit.
A Spotify playlist with at least 2,000 followers that you control. We check that it's yours without asking for your Spotify login, and every playlist is scanned for bot activity before it goes live. You choose its genres and which languages it accepts.
Within 48 hours of accepting it, and then keep it for at least 30 days. We keep checking your playlist, so there's nothing to report. Missed the deadline? We remind you and give you 3 more days. After that it counts as a missed placement: the artist gets their credits back, you get a strike, and it doesn't count as an accept in your acceptance rate.
We tell you first. A song only counts as missing after two checks a day apart, or when the artist tells us it's gone; then you get a heads-up and 3 days to put it back, and if you do, nothing happens. Songs taken down from Spotify never count. Otherwise it's a strike: the first is just a reminder; from the second on, each active strike costs 10 health points and refunds the artist for that song; at 3 active strikes your playlists are paused until you're back under the limit, while your account, wallet and payouts keep working. Strikes expire after 90 days, and you can ask for a review of any active strike. Strike reviews and disputes may be decided automatically by our rules and an AI check; you can always ask a person to look again through Help.
A public 0–100 score for how reliably you review: your response time, how artists rate your feedback, whether you add accepted songs on time and keep them for at least 30 days, and whether you use "Wrong genre" only for real mismatches. Your acceptance rate isn't part of it: you're paid to review, not to place, so accepting more never raises your score. It shows as "New" until you have 10 reviews, and a higher score moves your playlists up in the market. Badges like Fast Responder and Loved by Artists show on your playlists too; they never change your pay.
Earnings stay pending for 7 days (the dispute window), then become available. Request a payout any time you have at least $20 ($10 with Curator Premium). Payouts go through Stripe to your bank account. Earnings are counted in US dollars and sent in euros at the day's exchange rate. Stripe or your bank converts them to your currency if your account isn't in euros.
You do. Curators are independent, and payouts are reported where the law requires it (for example EU DAC7). Keep your seller details up to date in settings.
Credits are delivered immediately and are not refundable once purchased. Single submissions are refunded to your balance automatically when a curator doesn't review in time, marks your song as the wrong genre, accepts it but never adds it, or a dispute is upheld in your favour.
Any time. Your plan stays active until the end of the current billing period and credits you already received are yours to keep.
Autopilot comes with every plan, works the same on all of them, and is off until you turn it on for a song. Every month (or every week, if you prefer) our AI matches your song to the playlists that fit it best and pitches it to them for a review, using your credits up to a monthly limit you choose, never more. The matching is automated and AI-assisted: after our usual rules (genre, language, curator health, never a playlist that already reviewed the song), an AI model compares your song's genres, mood, language and artist details with each playlist's description, the curator's wishes and its "not a fit" line, and leaves out clear mismatches. It works from that text only; it doesn't listen to your song. Higher plans simply bring more credits. You get a heads-up 2 days before each pitch and can skip it with one tap, change the settings or turn it off anytime. Autopilot sends are reviews like the ones you send yourself, with the same refunds: you pay for a guaranteed review, not a placement.
Every playlist needs 2,000+ followers and is scanned before listing and re-scanned every 30 days: follower growth, listener activity, suspicious patterns and more. Playlists that fail are rejected or paused.
It's built to. Placements are never sold: curators are paid to review, the same whether they accept or decline. There are no bots or fake streams. We only read public data (through Spotify's official API and licensed music-data providers), never ask for a Spotify login, and vet every playlist before it's listed. PlaylistMarket is an independent service and is not affiliated with or endorsed by Spotify.
Some curators on the platform may be affiliated with the platform operator. They play by exactly the same rules as everyone else, and the same feedback, deadline and minimum placement rules apply.
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