Official Artist Channels

An Official Artist Channel (OAC) brings an artist’s own channel and their auto-generated Topic channel together, with the music note badge.

Requirements

• The artist has an existing YouTube channel they control.
• The artist has music distributed to YouTube Music through HILLS.
• The channel follows YouTube’s policies and has no active strikes.

How to request

Open Requests → YouTube and choose Official Artist Channel. Add the artist’s channel URL and the topic channel URL. We file the request with YouTube and update you in the request thread.