Requesting a YouTube Official Artist Channel

Eastly apply for Upgrade your artist channel by ANS Music’s Dashboard

Believe allows you to benefit from an accelerated YouTube OAC verification when submitting a new release. To do so, follow the steps below:

Start creating and completing your release as usual
Once the release is ready to be submitted, click on the “Submit my release” button
Confirm your Artist Pages
Enter the id or the URL of your official artist channel

Please ensure that the ID contains 24 characters. More info below
Once your channel is entered, the result gives you information about the channel name, the channel picture and the channel’s subscribers number

As a YouTube channel represents one artist or one band, you will be able to certify a YouTube official artist channel if both conditions below are satisfied:

Your release contains only one Primary artist on the Release information tab
This Primary artist is not already associated with a YouTube channel

Please note that the following are not accepted :

Label, radio stations or taste-maker Channels
Multi artists’ channels (Duets…)
YouTube Topic channels
Vevo or Live channels
A channel not complying with YouTube community guidelines
A channel that is artist related but not the official channel (for instance, a channel of the Artist Tour…
A channel already associated with another artist

Note that channels with less than 100 subscribers cannot benefit from the Accelerated OAC Request Process, through Backstage. If this is your case, please get in touch with Believe Support.

For more details on OAC eligibility, please check: YouTube Official Artist Channel Certification (OAC)

How to find your YouTube OAC ID

If you do not own the channel you need the ID for, go to the channel page’s “About”-section and click on the “share”-icon , then “Copy Channel ID”.