Thie following article lists the most important guidelines to consider when creating and distributing your content to Apple Music.

Introduction

Most important considerations

Asset quality

Artist accuracy and formatting

Localizations and phonetics

Explicit or Clean version

Lyrics

Artist ID

Rejections

 

Introduction

Apple Music is one of the main channels and one of the first ones that has established a Style Guide for content delivery. iTunes guidelines are the most strict among the DSPs. This is to ensure that Apple Music is the most complete music experience available, with a catalogue of good quality and variety and free of legal and rights issues.

 

Most important considerations

Here we share a list of the most important guidelines to consider when preparing your content for delivery to Apple Music:

 

Asset quality

Quality of the audio. We expect to receive the highest-quality assets available, which must meet or exceed the quality of the physical product is already out in the marketplace.

 

Artist accuracy and formatting

Pay attention to the format and accuracy of artist names and roles. The information should be correct and remain consistent across all content of the artist. The artist's name must not be generic and include any additional information. Also, take into consideration that the Songwriter/Composer/Lyricist role is considered very important and will become a mandatory role in the future.

 

Localizations and phonetics

Localizations and phonetics enhance the discoverability of your content. If your content is available in more than one language, localizations have to be considered. Please contact our team for more information.