Setting Up Artist Profiles
After onboarding, set up your artist profiles to start distributing across 150+ DSPs worldwide — in under 48 hours.
Creating your artist profile
You’re verified, you’re in. Now set up your artist profiles so DSPs and listeners see you correctly across 150+ platforms worldwide. Get this right, and your music shows up properly everywhere from Spotify and Apple Music to regional and niche storefronts. Get it wrong, and you’re fighting metadata fires for weeks.
Enter your artist name
Use your official performing name. Match it exactly across every platform and release. No aliases, no extra spacing, no variations. Consistency is what keeps your catalog tied to the right artist page.
Add your bio
Write a concise, compelling bio in 2–3 paragraphs. Cover who you are, what you make, and where you’re from. If it helps, anchor it around the genres you release in, whether that’s classical, Afro-pop, Amapiano, hip-hop, or another lane you want platforms and listeners to understand quickly.
Upload artist images
Upload a high-resolution press photo with a minimum size of 3000x3000 pixels. Add a logo or mark if it is part of your artist identity, plus any extra promotional images you want associated with your profile. Keep everything clean and professional, with no watermarks, screenshots, or text overlays.
Link your socials
Connect your Instagram, YouTube, TikTok, and any other active social profiles. DSPs use these links to support verification and build out artist pages. Current links also make your profile look maintained, not abandoned.
Set your primary genre and language
Choose the primary genre and language that best represent the artist. These choices help platforms categorize your music and influence how recommendation systems position it. Pick what is most accurate, not what feels broadest.
Review and submit
Read everything one more time before you submit. Check name formatting, image quality, links, genre, and language. Once submitted, your profile is prepared for distribution across connected DSPs.
Profile best practices
Before you submit, tighten up the details that usually cause problems later:
- Use the exact same artist name everywhere. Do not use one version on Spotify and another on Apple Music.
- Upload high-quality images only. Skip blurry photos, screenshots, and images with text overlays.
- Write your bio in the language of your primary audience.
- Keep your social links current. Dead links hurt credibility and slow down verification.
- If you already have a DSP artist page, add the existing profile identifier to avoid duplicate pages.
Good profiles are boring in the best way. They are consistent, complete, and easy for platforms to trust.
Avoiding duplicate profiles
Duplicate artist pages usually start with small metadata mismatches. If your artist name, linked socials, or platform identifiers do not match exactly, a DSP may create a second page instead of connecting your release to the one you already have.
If you already have a Spotify Artist URI or Apple Music Artist ID, use it when setting up the profile. This is where metadata discipline matters: clean naming, clean identifiers, and clean release data from day one keep your catalog organized and dispute-free.
Verifying your profile across DSPs
DIMBER distributes your profile data to 150+ DSPs worldwide, and most profiles go live within 48 hours. Some platforms, especially regional or niche storefronts, may take longer to process updates. You’ll receive confirmation as each platform confirms your profile.
Managing multiple artists for labels
If you run a label, you can create and manage multiple artist profiles under one DIMBER account. Each artist keeps a separate profile and identity, while you manage releases, metadata, and payouts from a single dashboard.
That setup makes it easier to keep catalog operations centralized without blending artist data. Each profile still needs its own accurate name, images, socials, genre, and language, so treat every artist setup as its own metadata job.