A key part of building a brand and gaining fans is through YouTube, but sometimes, your content can end up on the wrong topic channel and cause headaches.
Luckily, WordPlay T. Jay is here to help you figure out how to get your content on the right channel.
Music that ends up in the wrong place is distributed to YouTube through places like Tunecore, CDBaby or DistroKid. YouTube automatically places music from these sites onto topic channels it creates, as it does not have a permission system in place to upload to your personal channel. This can lad to a song ending up on the page of an artist with a different name or other issues.
If you find your music on the wrong topic channel, you will have to communicate that to YouTube to get it fixed.
What can lead to this is not properly crediting artists on the song, which is what happened with one of T. Jay’s artists, Deejay Centipede. In his case, the feature artists on his song were credited next to him as artists, not as feature credits. To fix this, they had to remove the song from the distributor site, keeping the IRSC code, then fix the metadata credits and reupload.
That is the first option for fixing a song on the wrong topic channel — remove, correct and reupload. This may be necessary if a spelling of a name is wrong or if your name is too close to another artist’s.
The second way to fix a wrong topic channel issue is to email artist-support@youtube.com. T. Jay has included a template email in the description of the YouTube video at the bottom of this article.
In the email, you’ll have to note what song is incorrect, link to the incorrect topic page and the correct topic page, then include information about the song, including things like the song name, album name, artist name, IRSC, UPC, label/copyright owner and distributor.
Once you give all that information, YouTube should be able to fix the issue, or reply to you and tell you what needs to be done to fix it.
A final way to reach a solution involves a true artist page. If you have three or more songs sent to YouTube through a distributor, you can have all your content merged into an artist channel related to your name.
There is also a link detailing that process in the description of the YouTube video below.