Email alerts inform you when any of your “Followed Artists” or “Followed Songs” have significant activity.
You can get alerted on:
- Spotify Playlist Adds
For your “Followed Artists”, you’ll get alerted every time any song from your artist is added to one of the Top 250 playlists worldwide, whether you select “Everywhere” or your preferred territory (e.g. United States, United Kingdom).
For your “Followed Songs”, you’ll get alerted every time your song is added to top playlists. When you have as your preferred territory:
- “Everywhere”: You’ll get alerts for Top 250 playlists worldwide.
- A specific territory: You’ll get alerts for Top 250 playlists worldwide and Top 100 local playlists.
- Spotify Chart Peaks
When your preferred territory is set to “Everywhere”, you’ll get alerted every time any song from your artist reaches a new peak in the Global Top 200 chart.
When your preferred territory is set to a specific territory (e.g. United States, United Kingdom), you’ll get alerted every time any song from your artist reaches a new peak in the Global and local Top 200 charts.
- Spotify Release Comparisons
You’ll get alerted when a new release from your followed lists outperforms the artist’s previous or best track globally during the same post-release time period. Your alert may compare against the previous release, the artist’s best performing track, or both.
Set your preferred territory to also receive release comparisons specific to your territory.
- Spotify Streams Milestones
You’ll get alerted when a track from your followed list has reached a significant streaming threshold globally. Thresholds include:
| 10,000 |
| 100,000 |
| 1 million |
| 10 million |
| 100 million |
| 1 billion |
| 10 billion |
| 100 billion |
You can only receive milestone alerts when you follow a track, so make sure to follow the track you’d like alerts on.
- Spotify Spikes
You’ll get alerted when a track from your followed list has seen a sharp increase in daily streams. We’ll show you where the spike is coming from. You can only receive spike alerts when you follow a track, so make sure to follow the track you’d like alerts on.
- Instagram Engaging Posts
An Instagram post reached the artist’s top 5 most engaging posts in the past 90 days. We'll show you the likes and comments per follower to compare to other recent posts.
Instagram engagements are defined as total likes and comments.
UML must be able to track the artist’s Instagram account to receive this alert, which means the Instagram account must be a “business” account. Due to Instagram settings, accounts set to “personal” cannot be tracked. In the social tab, you can add the artist’s Instagram account by clicking the “Connect social channels” button.
- Shazam Tags Spikes
Shazam tags of a song spiked, with data on how many tags and what hour the spike occurred. The alert uses military time (24hr).
The alert is based on your preferred territory. In order to receive the email, you must choose a preferred territory, you cannot set your preferred territory to Global.
- TikTok Views Spikes
Views of TikToks featuring a track by an artist you follow increased sharply. Includes information on the top countries, and compares the engagement rate of the track to the lifetime engagement of the artist on TikTok.
Set your preferred territory to also receive release comparisons specific to your territory.
How to set up your alerts
Step 1: Search for your artist or song and click “Follow”.
Step 2: On the “Profile & Alerts” tab, choose your preferred territory for additional local alerts or select “Global” for global alerts only.
Step 3: Toggle your alerts on and you’re all set!