Type your artist name. See your real Spotify and Instagram numbers, and the artists you are actually next to. Then every Monday we tell you what moved and what it probably means.
You have been comparing yourself to your friends, or to Drake. One is too small a sample to mean anything. The other tells you nothing except that you are not Drake.
Free to look, and looking needs no account. Can't find yourself? That's normal at your size, paste your Spotify link instead.
Why nothing is moving
Knowing what to do has never been the hard part. Knowing whether it did anything is.
The only comparisons you have are useless.Your friends are too small a sample to mean anything. Drake is not a sample at all. Between those two there is no scale, so there is no answer.
So a bad week and a normal week look identical.41 followers after one release might be a disaster or completely ordinary. Nobody has ever told you which, and you have never had a way to find out.
So you stop.Effort with no visible result stops feeling like effort and starts feeling like proof you were right to doubt yourself.
What you get
Three parts. The first two are free and always will be.
Your followers, your popularity, which of your tracks is actually carrying you, and how long it has been since you released. Add your Instagram and we read that too. No account needed, four seconds, as often as you like.
The range artists your size and your genre sit in, on a real scale. Then pin up to three artists you want to catch, and every Monday we tell you whether you gained faster or slower than they did. Not your friends, not Drake. People you actually chose.
What moved on Spotify and on your socials, whether that beat or trailed artists your size, what it probably means, and one thing to do about it. With the wording already written, in your voice.
Under about a thousand followers Spotify barely registers you, and no honest scale exists. We will tell you that plainly instead of inventing a range, and we will say so rather than sell you something that cannot work yet. Most of this industry does the opposite.
Where the scale comes from
Every Sunday we take a snapshot of around a thousand working artists across genres, and keep it. That is the only reason we can tell you what normal looks like at your size.
It is collected, not estimated.Real artists, real follower counts, real popularity scores, recorded on the day. If we do not have enough of them in your genre, you get told that instead of a guess.
It cannot be backfilled.Anyone can look up a number today. Nobody can look up what artists your size did last month unless they were already writing it down.
Which is what makes Monday worth reading.Not that you gained nine followers. That you gained nine while artists your size gained two to six, and here is what to do about it.
Read this before you pay
Most tools in this category are vague about this on purpose. We would rather you know now than find out in month two.
It tells you where you stand, what changed, and one thing to do about it, with the wording written. You still have to do it. That is the deal, and it is the only one that has ever worked.
What lands on Monday
Not a dashboard and not a report. One page that reads like someone looked at your week and had an opinion about it.
Spotify followers. At your size popularity barely moves, so followers is the only number that answers to what you do in a week. It is also what decides how many people see your next release on day one.
412 → 419
Third straight week between five and nine. That is a trend, not noise.
Lo-fi artists with 300 to 600 followers who released in the last three months mostly gain two to six a week. You are at the top of that band without a release. Something is working.
You gained 7 this week. halogen gained 4, solae gained 11 and released on Friday, oyster club lost 2. You are pacing second of four, and you have not put anything out in eleven weeks.
Your gains started the week Blue Hour moved from 3 to 11 while your other tracks did not move at all. One track is carrying you and you are not doing anything with that. Your Instagram grew 40 in the same period, so the reach is real.
Point everything at Blue Hour instead of spreading across the catalogue. Lead your Spotify bio with it. Here it is, written:
No checklist, no streak, nothing to tick off. We are not marking your homework.
Pricing
Spotify for Artists tells you what happened. It has never once told you whether it was normal, whether artists your size did better, or what to do next. That is the whole job, and it is the only thing you are paying for.
Your numbers and the range artists your size sit in. A snapshot, no account needed, never behind a wall, as many times as you like.
The full read. What moved, how that compares to artists your size, what it probably means, and one thing to do with the wording already written. No card.
The part that only exists over time: your movement against theirs, week on week. A single snapshot cannot tell you that, and nothing else will.
Cancel any time, in two clicks. Nothing is ever charged unless you choose a plan here yourself.
Start monthly$45 every three months. One full release cycle, which is the shortest run where you can actually judge whether this works.
Start quarterly$144 a year. Also the point at which the week on week comparison has enough history behind it to be worth having.
Start yearlyWhere this came from
We built this because we needed it. It ran on our own roster first, week after week, for artists with no team and no budget.
That work is how those artists ended up distributed through EMPIRE.
Built by the team behind an independent label in Montreal
Type your artist name. Four seconds, and looking needs no account. An account is only for the weekly read, and it is one email with no password.
No card, nothing to sign up for.