Work with an Apple-preferred distributor or encoding house to get your music on Apple Music and the iTunes Store.
Learn about the minimum requirements to deliver your music to Apple Music and the iTunes Store.
Learn more about the Agreements, Tax, and Banking module in iTunes Connect and set up your account to distribute music on Apple Music and the iTunes Store.
To stream or sell music on Apple Music or the iTunes Store, you must review and accept legal agreements in iTunes Connect.
To stream or sell music on Apple Music or the iTunes Store, you must submit the required tax forms for your country or region.
Learn how to provide banking information so you can stream or sell music on Apple Music or the iTunes Store.
Learn about the different roles available in the iTunes Connect Users and Access module, and how to add, edit, and remove users.
Update email preferences to receive notifications about the status of your music on Apple Music and the iTunes Store, payments, and other financial reports.
Learn more about Apple Music metadata, artwork, and quality guidelines to follow when submitting your music to Apple Music and the iTunes Store.
Learn about the different types of metadata and how metadata drives music discoverability on Apple Music.
Ensure releases for Apple Music and the iTunes Store include artist IDs, artwork, audio, and product identifiers.
Learn how to deliver Dolby Atmos audio through Transporter and how Apple Music displays Dolby Atmos badging on tracks.
Partner with approved mastering studios to offer listeners the highest-quality audio on Apple Music and the iTunes Store.
Follow these guidelines to format song lyrics, and learn how to submit lyrics and time-synced lyrics to Apple Music.
Learn more about delivering music videos and concert films to Apple Music and the iTunes Store.
Submit a ticket to make changes to metadata, cover art, or audio, and understand the importance of quickly addressing tickets assigned by Apple.
Use Apple-approved delivery tools, iTunes Producer and Transporter, to deliver music to Apple Music and the iTunes Store.
Learn about music rights and pricing, including managing price tiers, and review territories where you can stream or sell music on Apple Music and the iTunes Store.
Apple Music pre-adds and iTunes Store pre-orders allow listeners to get a preview of an album and add music for upcoming releases to their library or playlists.
In iTunes Connect, view the status of releases, download catalog reports to identify issues with music deliveries, and flag deliveries to expedite releases.
Learn about the editorial reasons such as misleading content and repeated submissions that may cause a release to be hidden on Apple Music and the iTunes Store.
Learn how to address tickets and resolve problems with your music releases.
Learn how to make updates to artist IDs, rights and pricing, release dates, and genres for tracks and albums in iTunes Connect.
Learn how to make updates to your release’s audio, cover art, or metadata after your delivery.
Make changes to artist pages on Apple Music and the iTunes Store, including updating images, submitting motion artwork, and requesting changes to artist bios.
Address possible Apple Music and iTunes Store issues such as incorrect artist pages, unavailable music, copyright infringement, customer reviews, and more.
The Apple Music for Artists partner view allows labels and distributors to measure the performance of distributed music and music videos.
Apple Music for Artists provides music stats such as plays, average daily listeners, purchases, and more for songs, albums, playlists, and videos.
The Trends section in Apple Music for Artists provides music stats such as plays, average daily listeners, purchases, and insights on listener demographics.
Learn about minimum payment requirements and how to troubleshoot issues with your payments.
The Places section in Apple Music for Artists provides music stats such as listeners, plays, and Shazams by city and country or region.
Shazam data in Apple Music for Artists shows top Shazams by artist and listener demographics such as city, country, and region.
Available on the App Store, Apple Music for Artists on iOS gives you a snapshot of your music’s performance on the go.
Learn how to use Apple Music Marketing Tools, Apple Identity Guidelines, and the affiliate program to drive music promotions and marketing.
Access Sales and Trends in iTunes Connect to track music sales and streams by country or region and date.
Download sales and streams reports in iTunes Connect to measure music performance on Apple Music and the iTunes Store.
Understand the timing and availability for Apple Music, Shazam, and Sales reports.
Payments and financial reports, available to download in iTunes Connect, include monthly earnings and payments for music on Apple Music and the iTunes Store.
Learn how to onboard and authorize users of the Music Analytics API, a querying tool that provides aggregated, anonymized counts of listeners and plays.
September 06, 2023
See what’s changed in the latest version of the Apple Music Style Guide.
We have updated our artist image guidelines.
August 29, 2023
Learn about updates to the upcoming Apple Music financial report.
August 22, 2023
Find out how to get your artist's content on Apple Music Sing.
July 25, 2023
To support the upcoming release of Song Credits, ensure your content deliveries include the appropriate credits and roles within the metadata to allow listeners to access this feature for your artist.
February 14, 2023
Bring your artist’s content to life with album motion artwork on Apple Music.
November 01, 2022
Launching an all-new, Apple Music “Excluded Streams” Report.
October 25, 2022
You can now include an artist ISNI within the XML of a delivery to better identify your artist’s content.
October 18, 2022
If you plan on releasing music on Apple Music and the iTunes Store between November 25, 2022, and January 6, 2023, remember to check the following delivery deadlines.
October 06, 2022
Launching an all-new, Apple Music “In Review” Report.
July 27, 2022
March 14, 2022
We’ve added new genre and subgenre codes to our specification.
January 31, 2022
Apple Music Reports in iTunes Connect now include immersive audio data.
December 13, 2021
An all-new voice-forward subscription offering is available to our subscribers.
December 01, 2021
The new version of the Music Analytics API is now available with an all-new Captured Secondary Audience Play Count field and updated field names.
November 29, 2021
Manage the delivery date of your immersive audio deliveries.
November 10, 2021
We’re excited to announce the Apple Music for Artists partner view, a new way for partners to understand the performance of your distributed artists’ music.
October 11, 2021
The Artist and Content Demographic Reports now include spatial and lossless audio reporting.
September 20, 2021
Learn about the impact of metadata accuracy before your next delivery.
August 09, 2021
Learn to deliver your music with a wider range of credits.
July 26, 2021
Check out this newly released feature to help manage your music in iTunes Connect.
July 20, 2021
Understand how the new spatial and lossless audio update impacts Apple Music reporting.
June 14, 2021
Learn about Spatial Audio with Dolby Atmos and lossless audio — including delivery, specs, audio profile, and FAQs.
May 18, 2021
The all-new Container Summary Streams Report is now available in both the iTunes Connect Sales and Trends Guide and Reporter Guide.
We’ve made a few enhancements to the Music Analytics API. See what’s changing in the Music Analytics API Guide.
Download the latest version of iTunes Producer.
April 28, 2021
The Upload Lyrics feature allows for static and time-synced lyric deliveries directly in iTunes Connect.
April 05, 2021
The Album Summary in iTunes Connect now has a clickable icon that takes providers directly to Apple Music artist pages.
March 15, 2021
Check out the new Music Analytics API, a new way to analyze Apple Music data designed and built with privacy in mind.
New report fields are now available in the Apple Music Summary Streams Report.
February 12, 2021
Check out some newly released features to help manage your music in iTunes Connect.
Use our style standards and guidelines to prepare your music for Apple Music and the iTunes Store.
How to create and deliver music, TV, and film assets.
How to use XML specifications for music content.
How to manage your artist images and galleries for the iTunes Store.
How to create and edit artists on Apple Music and the iTunes Store.
Featuring Artwork is used to showcase an artist, album, or other content in Apple Music.
Learn how to create visually consistent and impactful motion artwork for your music.
Best practices and style guidelines for lyrics sent to Apple.
Learn how to make an artist page come alive with motion images on Apple Music.
How to deliver your music to iTunes using iTunes Producer.
How to validate metadata XML files using Relax NG schemas.
How to deliver large music catalogs to iTunes using Transporter.
Track the performance of your content on Apple Music and the iTunes Store with our data visualization tool, Sales and Trends.
How to provide rights and pricing details for your music.
Learn how to use the command-line tool Reporter to download sales and financial reports.
Use tickets in iTunes Connect to make changes to your content that's available for sale on Apple Music and the iTunes Store.
Learn how to access and read reports that detail your monthly earnings, amounts owed, and payments made to you.
Find out how to use the Music Analytics API to run anonymous queries that track audience engagement, location details, and more.
A list of extended contributor roles for music on the iTunes Store.
All genre codes that are available for music on the iTunes Store.
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