Spotify Curator Email List: Where to Find One | TAP
Free tools for Spotify playlist tracking
By TAP Editorial Team
Quick answer
There is no official Spotify curator email list, and the CSV files sold as one are scraped once and resold for years. Independent curators publish their own address themselves, in the playlist description or on the site, Linktree or blog linked from their profile. Spotify editorial playlists carry no address at all: those go through the pitch form in Spotify for Artists. Check any address is still live before you send to it.
Most people searching for a Spotify curator email list want one file with every address in it. That file does not exist in any honest form. What does exist is a large number of curators who publish their own submissions address, on the playlist itself or on the site behind it, and a small set of free tools that let you find those pages, read the address off them, check it is still live, and then watch what a placement actually does to your streams. The tools below cover all four jobs, and none of them costs anything to start.
The playlist page itself is where most independent curators publish their submissions address. Open the playlist, read the description, then click the owner's name to reach their profile, where a link to a site, Linktree, Bandcamp or blog usually sits. The submissions address is normally on that page with the curator's own instructions printed beside it.
Free tier: Free with any Spotify account, free tier included. No login needed to read a public playlist description.
Best for: Finding a real address for an independent playlist, and reading the rules the curator set before you write to them.
The only route to Spotify's own editorial playlists. The pitch form takes one unreleased track at a time, and the same account shows you which playlists your music landed on afterwards, how many listeners each one sent, and how many of them saved the track.
Free tier: Free for every artist with music on Spotify. There is no paid tier and no pitch you can buy.
Best for: Pitching editorial, then checking a placement against Spotify's own numbers rather than a third party's copy of them.
Two search operators do most of the work of a contact list. A site search restricted to a curator's domain finds their submissions page when the site navigation hides it, and a filetype search surfaces the submission guidelines that blogs and radio shows publish as documents. Searching a playlist name alongside the word submissions often reaches the curator's own page in one step.
Free tier: Free. The operators work in the normal search box, so the advanced form is only there if you prefer filling in fields.
Best for: Reaching the page a curator published their address on, when the address is not on the playlist itself.
Shows you when a page last changed. Paste the URL of a submissions page and you can see whether the address on it has been sitting untouched for four years or was updated last month. An address on a page nobody has edited since 2021 is the single most common reason a pitch bounces.
Free tier: Free, no account. Snapshot coverage varies by site, and small blogs are captured less often than large ones.
Best for: Deciding whether an address you found is worth sending to, before it costs you a bounce.
Exports the track list of any public Spotify playlist to CSV. Useful in two directions: export the playlists you are targeting to see what they actually add and how often, and export the playlists your own track sits on so you can keep a dated record of placements in a spreadsheet.
Free tier: Playlist export and conversion work free. Some convenience features sit behind a paid tier, and the export you need does not.
Best for: Building your own tracking sheet, and reading a playlist's recent additions before pitching it.
Tracks the playlists a track sits on and how its position inside them moves week to week. The free account limits how many artists you can follow and delays some updates, which is workable when you are watching one release.
Free tier: Free account with limited tracking and delayed data. Real-time monitoring and comparison sit behind paid plans.
Best for: Watching position movement over the weeks after a placement, which matters more than the follower count of the playlist.
A map of the genres Spotify itself recognises, built from Spotify's own data. Click a genre and you hear what the platform files under that name, which is the fastest way to check that the genre you are about to tag on a pitch means the same thing to Spotify as it does to you.
Free tier: Free, no registration.
Best for: Checking your genre tag against Spotify's taxonomy before you pitch, so the submission reaches the right editorial team.
Searches Spotify playlists by genre and follower count and shows their metadata. Worth knowing what it is: the paid export is a scraped contact file of the kind this page warns about, and the free search is a playlist finder. Use the free search to build a shortlist, then go to each playlist and read the address the curator published.
Free tier: Search and browse are free. Contact exports are paid, and the addresses in them are scraped rather than offered.
Best for: Shortlisting playlists in your genre quickly, as a starting point for reading real addresses off real pages.
The work these tools save you is the reading, not the judgement. An address you took off the curator's own page, on a date you wrote down, is worth more than a thousand rows bought from someone who scraped the same pages years ago and never looked again. Keep a note of where each address came from and when you read it, because that note is what makes the second release faster than the first. TAP keeps a shared contact pool tagged by genre, and every contact in it carries the page it came from and the date that page was checked, so you can open the source and see the address for yourself. The first release is free, no card, and a release pack after that is £59 one off.
Frequently asked questions
Where can I get a Spotify curator email list as a CSV?
Nowhere official, and the files sold as one are scraped and resold for years at a time. Build your own instead: shortlist the playlists that fit your sound, open each one, take the address the curator published, and record the page and the date in a spreadsheet. A short sheet you assembled that way sends cleanly, and the bought file costs you deliverability on every message that follows it.
Do Spotify editorial curators have email addresses I can pitch?
Not publicly, and Spotify does not attribute its editorial playlists to named people. Everything editorial goes through the pitch form in Spotify for Artists, one unreleased track at a time, ideally four weeks or more before release. Independent playlists are the opposite: those curators want submissions and publish an address for them.
How do I check a curator's email address is still live before I send?
Look at the page it came from. If the site still lists current playlists and recent additions, the address is probably being read. Run the URL through the Wayback Machine to see when it last changed, and treat anything untouched for several years as doubtful. Where a curator offers a form instead of an address, use the form, because that is the route they are actually reading.
How do I tell an editorial placement from an algorithmic one?
Spotify for Artists separates them. Editorial placements name the playlist, which you can open and see for yourself. Algorithmic listening shows up under headings like Discover Weekly and Radio, with no single playlist page behind it. The distinction matters because an editorial add is a decision you can pitch again next time, and an algorithmic lift is a response to what listeners already did.
What should I actually measure after a placement?
Saves against listeners, and position over time. Save rate tells you whether the playlist's audience is your audience, which decides whether that curator is worth a second pitch. Position tells you how long the placement will keep working, because tracks drift down a list before they drop off it. Follower count tells you almost nothing on its own: a smaller playlist that saves is worth more than a large one that skips.
Are the free tiers of these tools enough on their own?
For one release at a time, yes. Spotify for Artists is free and complete, the address hunting is reading rather than software, and the free tier of a tracking tool covers a single track comfortably. Paid plans start to earn their money when you are watching a catalogue across many playlists at once, which is a later problem than the one this page is about.
From the field
Proof points
- Best UK send window: Tue/Wed 09:00-10:00 UK (Across 60+ campaigns)
- Optimal follow-up cadence: +7 days from initial pitch (Liberty internal data)
- Reply visibility blind spot: Stations add to rotation without replying (WARM monitoring vs email reply rate)
What actually happened
Roam Belle: 96 plays across UK regional and community stations. Named-contact approach, declining curve in week 5. (Spring 2025)
Spotify for Artists is a portal pitch, not a person pitch, and that is the trap. The form is the floor, not the ceiling. The plays come from named editors who know the show fit, and you only earn that contact by shipping the form fill cleanly first. I treat the portal as the audition and the human relationship as the gig. Both have to work.
Chris Schofield, Radio plugger, Liberty Music PR
Related resources
Further reading
- TAP Blog — In-depth guides, comparisons and advice for independent artists running their own promotion.
- UK Music — The voice of the UK music industry, representing labels, publishers, and collecting societies.
- Music Week — Industry news, charts, and analysis for music professionals.
- The Music Network — Global music business intelligence and networking.
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