Amazon Music for Artists is the tool Amazon Music provides for artists and their teams to see how their music is doing on that platform. If your songs are on Amazon Music, you can usually get into it, and it is worth a few minutes. Features and screens change from time to time, so treat this as a guide to the idea, and check what your own account shows.
What it is and who can use it
There is a web dashboard and a mobile app. You sign in with an Amazon account and request access to your artist profile. Amazon then checks that you are the artist or a person authorised to act for them, and gives access. Managers and label staff are usually added by the artist or through the artist's distributor. The exact verification steps change, so follow what the tool asks you at the moment you apply.
One condition comes first: your music has to be live on Amazon Music, with an artist profile that shows your releases. If you search your name and find nothing, there is nothing to claim yet, and the issue is delivery, not the tool.
Claiming your profile step by step
- Check your artist page. Search for your name on Amazon Music and open your artist page. Make sure the releases listed are really yours. If a different artist with a similar name is mixed in, tell your distributor early, because merged profiles are easier to fix before you build on them.
- Open Amazon Music for Artists on the web or in the app and sign in with your Amazon account.
- Find your name and request access. Choose your artist profile from the search.
- Complete the verification the tool asks for, and wait for the answer.
- Invite your team if the tool offers that option. A manager should have their own login, not yours.
If something looks wrong, such as the wrong photo, a missing release or a request that is not approved, send your distributor the exact artist name, the titles of your releases and the link to your Amazon Music artist page. That gives them what they need to check it. Do not file several requests at once for the same profile, because that usually slows things down.
What the dashboard has shown
In general terms, the dashboard gives you a view of:
- streams and listeners over time
- your top songs
- where your listeners are, by country or city
- Alexa voice requests for your music
Other items, such as follower counts or playlist information, may appear depending on the current version. Open your account and see what it gives you today, not what an article from last year said. As with any platform's data, do not compare these numbers with Spotify or YouTube numbers directly. Each service counts in its own way. Track your own trend inside Amazon Music from week to week.
What Alexa voice requests tell you
Many Amazon Music listeners use a voice assistant on a smart speaker, and they ask for music out loud, such as "Alexa, play Lalə Nova". The tool has shown how many requests like this your music received. That is useful, because it shows how people are finding you without typing.
Voice requests depend on the assistant recognising your name. A name with unusual spelling or special letters can be misheard. Test it yourself: ask a speaker or the app to play one of your songs, and see what happens. If it plays someone else, check that your artist name is written the same way on every release, and tell your distributor. When you share your music with fans, give them the exact phrase to say, for example the song title and your name, so it is easy to repeat out loud.
Artist photo and bio
If your version of the tool lets you update your artist photo and bio, do it. This is your public face on the platform.
- Photo: use a sharp, well-lit image of you or your project that is clearly your own. Check the size and format the tool asks for, and do not use images you do not have the right to use.
- Bio: write two to four short sentences: who you are, where you are from, what you play and your latest release. Leave out claims you cannot back up, such as "the biggest artist in the region".
Update the photo and bio whenever you release something new, so a visitor who opens your page sees that you are active.
Making it part of your week
Open the tool once a week, at the same time as your other dashboards, and write down three things: streams, listeners and top country. If you notice that Alexa requests are rising, mention the exact phrase in your next post. If the numbers are small, that is normal for an early profile. The value of the tool is in the direction over several weeks, not in a single day.