So how do you ensure that your music shows up on the correct profile? If you don’t want to change your name (take out some vowels, like “The Weeknd”), then the best way is to talk to your distributor before release day. If this isn’t entered before the release, then sometimes artists with the same name can appear on the wrong artist profile. Apple Music uses their own code, which can be found in the URL of the artist profile page. Spotify uses an artist code called a URI. With artist pages, Spotify and Apple Music use their own system to track the artist name. Other tags, like EAN and ISRC, help track streams and sales across platforms. It helps track everything from artists and composers to copyright information so that people get paid.

Think about metadata as a form of tagging. The windfall for Emre came from the way Spotify handles their metadata. So how do you ensure that your name ends up on the correct profile? In this article, we’ll take a look at how music can end up on the wrong artist profile and share how to fix it. While this represents an extreme example, with over 20,000 tracks per day delivered on Spotify, there are bound to be duplicate artist names. “But actually everything turned out really good because so many new people came along with the press about the mixup.”

“Waking up, it felt a little surreal” said Emre, the Future from North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, who has a YouTube gaming channel with 500 subscribers. Rather, a glitch with Spotify led to a 15-year old German rapper, also named Future, to have his debut release shared with the US Future’s 21 million fans. Many fans wondered if the American rapper’s Spotify got hacked.

Instead of bassed out, pop-infused hip hop with Future’s vocoded vocals, listeners heard a smoked out groove with German lyrics. Last week, something strange popped up on the Spotify Release Radar for fans of the rapper Future.

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