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While the Apple Music for Artists beta is still limited to certain users, artists with music already on Apple Music can sign up and request access to the free service on AppleвЂ™s website today. OnВ iOS 12, the artist images are notably larger and now feature a play button (as pictured at the top of this article from early beta screenshots).

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SpotifyвЂ™s service also allows artists to edit their actual bio, something that Apple has long pulled from aggregators making difficult for independent artists to update or edit. Notably SpotifyвЂ™s platform recently launched the ability for artists to directly submit unreleased music to its editors for consideration on its editorial playlists.

The new artist image upload functionality is the first feature outside of listener data that the new dashboard is providing and itвЂ™s something that puts Apple Music one step closer to SpotifyвЂ™s platform for artists. When youвЂ™re happy with the crop, you can submit the artwork to Apple for review.ДЄpple doesnвЂ™t indicate how long on average the review process might take, but itвЂ™s nice that artists now have a way to upload their own artist images and also change them whenever they want without having to go through a third-party.ДЇirst launched earlier this year, the new Apple Music for Artists beta is a platform that allows artists and their representatives to view detailed analytics related to their music and fans. Once you upload an image, Apple allows you to adjust the crop and gives you a preview of how it will look in the various places it appears within Apple Music. Apple notes that the specs must be at least 2400Г—2400. Now the still in-beta Apple Music for Artists has a new artist image submission feature under the вЂњManageвЂќ tabвЂ¦.ДЇrom here artists (or anyone with permission to manage that artistвЂ™s Apple Music for Artists account) can easily submit a new artist image for review.

That meant lots of independent artists simply got AppleвЂ™s default microphone icon in search and no image on their profile page.

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Some labels and distributors have had the ability to change the artist image via manual submission to Apple, but, unlike Spotify, Apple previously didnвЂ™t have a way for artists to do it themselves. The new feature comes alongside AppleвЂ™s refreshed and enlarged artist images that appear in iOS 12 set for release this fall. Now, AppleвЂ™s recently launched вЂњApple Music for ArtistsвЂќ beta has been updated to allow exactly that. One of the long requested features for Apple Music by artists has been the ability to quickly and easily change bio/profile photos вЂ“ the main artist image that shows up when someone searches their name on iTunes or Apple Music and also at the top of their artist/catalog page.

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