Terms & Conditions

1. Who can upload

• Only the artist, or a representative the label has authorized, may upload a song.
• By uploading, you certify that you own the song or control every right needed to upload it and grant the permission below. If that isn't true, don't upload it.
• Real artists only: no AI artists and no AI vocals. A producer may use AI tools, but he still has to produce the song — a fully generated instrumental passed off as produced counts as an AI upload.

2. The permission you grant

• You grant Hot Top 20 exclusive permission to add and play your song on hottop20.com: streaming it on the 24/7 Stage, placing it on the Local, Regional and National charts, and keeping it in the rotation while it is live on your profile.
• Hot Top 20 may use the song, its cover art, and your artist name and profile on chart pages, song pages, share cards and in promotion of the platform.
• Your consent is recorded with the upload — the date, the time, and the account that certified it.

3. What does not change

• Your music stays yours. Uploading grants the permission above — it does not transfer ownership of your song, your masters or your publishing to Hot Top 20.
• Chart position is earned on the 15-Point Scale and engagement — it is never sold and never promised.

4. Taking a song down

• You can remove your song at any time from your dashboard. It leaves the rotation and the charts at the next midnight chart change.
• If a song is found to break these terms — including the real-artists rule, or a rights claim that checks out — it is pulled from the Top 20 and the Top 100 immediately.

Uploading a song means you agreed to these terms. The consent checkbox on the Upload page is the signature.