Spotify Change Alerts: All 29 Types LabelSentry Detects, With Examples

Spotify change alerts are only useful when they say exactly what happened. LabelSentry tells 29 kinds of change apart, sorted into three levels of severity. This is the full list, with examples taken from the product: click one to open it the way it looks in the dashboard. All of them are also in one table, each with a preview, on the change types page.

Takedowns and returns

These four are the reason most people start monitoring. Going offline is critical, coming back is a warning, because you want to know that it is over.

• Release offline. A whole single, EP or album can no longer be played.
• Track offline. One track is unavailable while the rest of the release still plays.
• Release back online. A release that was offline plays again.
• Track online. A single track is available again.

New music and features

• New release. A release appears on the artist's profile, with its tracks.
• New track. A track is added to a release that was already there.
• Feature added. Another artist now appears on a track.
• Feature removed. An artist who was credited on a track is no longer on it.

Details of a release

Details are set at the distributor, so a change here usually goes back to an update that was sent. The alert tells you that the update arrived and what it changed.

• Cover changed. The artwork is a different picture. A new address for the same picture does not count.
• Label changed. The label line of a release reads differently.
• Explicit tag changed. A track gained or lost the explicit marking.

The artist profile

• Verification removed. The blue badge is gone.
• Profile verified. The blue badge appeared.
• Marked as AI persona. Spotify labels the profile as AI generated.
• AI marking removed. That label is gone again.
• Bio changed. The biography reads differently, shown as before and after.
• Picture changed. The profile picture is a different one.
• Social link added, changed or removed. Three kinds, one for each thing that can happen to a link on the profile.

Audience

These move all the time and ask nothing of you. They are information, and the simple view of the feed leaves them out.

• Audience changed. Monthly listeners or followers moved noticeably.
• Rank changed. The artist's place in Spotify's worldwide ranking moved.
• Top tracks changed. The order of the most played tracks is different.
• Top cities changed. The list of cities with the most listeners is different.
• Top city changed. A new city is in first place.

Four more in beta

These go beyond what changed on your own profile. They are switched on per organization while they are being tested.

• Recording found elsewhere. One of your ISRCs appears under an artist that is not yours.
• Release may not belong here. A release landed on your profile that does not look like yours, which happens when two artists share a name.
• Same name, different profile. A new profile uses your artist name.
• Unusual play count. Plays jumped in a way no release explains.

Three levels, and why nothing arrives twice

Every type has a level. Critical is for music that cannot be played and for your recording under another artist. Warning is for things worth a look the same day, such as a label line or the badge. Info is everything else.

Spotify does not always give the same answer twice in a row. That is why LabelSentry reports a change only after it has seen it on several checks in a row, and stores the value from before and after. You get one alert for one event, not a new one every time a cache flips.

Choosing what reaches you

You decide per destination which types and which level arrive, by email, Discord or Slack, at once or as an hourly or daily digest. Most teams send critical changes at once and collect the rest.