What’s in the no-go zone? 🚫

If one of the things below appears in your artist name, track title, label name, or anywhere else on your RouteNote release, it’s likely to be rejected by stores.

Contact information

• Website addresses
• Hashtags
• Social media usernames (names beginning with the @ symbol)
• Email addresses
• Phone numbers

Advertising

• Promoting an upcoming release
• Asking customers to follow the artist on social media, even if links to the social media sites aren’t given
• Asking customers to find the artist’s content on other sites

Non-profit/copyright free

• Store policies mean you can’t describe your release as being non-profit, copyright free, public domain, creative commons, or similar

Store or distributor names

• Mentioning different stores, or distribution companies, in your metadata

Unrecognised characters

• Characters that are not part of a real language
• Non-standard punctuation symbols

Stores don’t like this stuff because it takes users away to content that the store hasn’t checked. If the moderation team have asked you to change your metadata, it’s probably because it falls under one of these categories.

For what to avoid in your track/release title version, click here.

Check out the full RouteNote Style Guide here!

Feel free to get in touch with us if you have any questions or concerns!

See also:
What is not accepted when formatting my artist name?
Can I use generic titles and names in my release?
What is misleading metadata?