Slow on purpose
Uploading forty listings in a weekend doesn't move it. Listings only start to count once they've been up a while without trouble.
What's being measured is a track record, and that takes time.
What contributes
- How long your account has existed
- Confirming your email address
- Optional phone and identity verification
- Listings that have been up for a while in good standing
- Audits that completed without issue
- No confirmed violations
- Completed file-licence sales. A refund or dispute lowers that count.
What does not contribute
- How many listings you have
- How much you attach. That changes the *listing’s* label, not your standing.
- How quickly you respond to things
- Commission enquiries. Those go through Contact the artist and don't count as sales.
What we won't tell you
The exact weighting. Publishing it would give anyone faking a trusted account a recipe, and it would push honest artists to work toward a formula.
You'll always be told in plain words what happened and what changed.