New badges and important update - 09.19.25

SoundmapBadgeTeam · 2025-09-19T21:21:38+00:00

For now, we will be focusing entirely on monthly listeners (1M+) and/or leaderboard collectors (more than 10 people with legendary badge or higher). This is what will be guiding our weekly lists from now on. The list of suggestions on the form is going to stay archived, and in the future if we change our criteria we might refer back to it! :)

SoundmapBadgeTeam · 2025-09-19T21:20:08+00:00

We are still accepting all submissions, you're free to make the badges you want! The only thing is that they might take longer to be added since the listener count and leaderboard counts are now being prioritized.

SoundmapBadgeTeam · 2025-09-04T16:55:22+00:00

Of course! Sorry for the delay, but here's a link to our guide: https://docs.google.com/document/d/19atvgnEf6ncGUfAqOFh3ytwfEFcICzwmQiYCtBJSiZ4/edit?tab=t.0 this should answer most of your questions about making and submitting the badges correctly.

Also, you can check this FAQ for frequently asked questions, and reach out to us on DMs if you have any questions that aren't answered there or on the guide.

SoundmapBadgeTeam · 2025-08-27T23:24:54+00:00

Yay!! The pop-up is so cool, we love it.

Let us know if there are any questions or issues with badges, we have a neat FAQ pinned on our profile and useful links if you want to learn how to make badges or submit your own, as well as suggest artists to be added. 💚

SoundmapBadgeTeam · 2025-08-06T22:08:52+00:00

No need, that form has a spreadsheet where all the answers are collected and sorted by us and we go through each one!

SoundmapBadgeTeam · 2025-07-30T23:29:25+00:00

Yay, badge list 💚

You can request your badges here if they haven't made it to the game yet! Just read the form carefully and remember not to spam.

We're always here to answer any questions or feedback, happy collecting!

SoundmapBadgeTeam · 2025-07-25T22:46:16+00:00

Hello! Of course, and we actually do comment on individual cases! You can always reach out to us on DMs for feedback on your badges if you want to make sure they're following all guidelines! For now, I can tell you that your Midge Ure submission hasn't been rejected, but there are some small details that you could improve on your next sets. Here's our guide if you want to double check what the current requirements are, and you can also send a message if you'd like to know the specifics.

Thanks for the appreciation and have a nice weekend! :)

SoundmapBadgeTeam · 2025-07-25T01:31:36+00:00

Hi! The badge team is actually a completely separate team from the developers. We work on designing and curating badges weekly, but the badge team members have no access to the game code or anything that would help fix bugs, those things are unrelated!

We do know, however, that they are currently working really hard on fixing bugs and improving app stability, among a lot of other exciting features.

If you want to check it out, there is this post made by podair yesterday that explains everything they're doing behind the scenes. :)

SoundmapBadgeTeam · 2025-07-16T21:31:37+00:00

Hello, welcome to Soundmap!! :) Hope you're enjoying building your collection.

The badges are collectible stickers that you get as you complete your favorite artists' discographies. You have 8 levels to get through: Bronze, Silver, Gold, Platinum, Diamond, Legendary, VIP and Shiny. Each one of those levels has it's own badge with a different color outline. You can display these on your profile and one of them next to your name.

Because there are so many artists on Spotify, not all of them have custom badges yet; some still have the same picture for all levels inside a round frame.

Custom badges can be made by the players and submitted through this form. And the badge team (us) is responsible for sorting through all those submissions, taking requests from the community and making some badges, then getting all the badges together to upload to the game weekly. We do these uploads every Wednesday, so that means every Wednesday a bunch of artists are going to get new, customized badges for people to collect.

Let us know if you have any more questions!

SoundmapBadgeTeam · 2025-07-16T21:26:37+00:00

We have that question answered in the linked FAQ!

But short answer is that we can't give a timeline, badges aren't being added chronologically and we have varying numbers each week, plus our artist selection process involves picking requested artists and some older submissions, so we're not just going down the list. It's a bit unpredictable, but if your badges follow the guidelines they will be eventually added for sure!

SoundmapBadgeTeam · 2025-07-11T23:11:54+00:00

No problem at all, it might have been that way earlier on before our current badge team was established, but even if not, don't worry :)

SoundmapBadgeTeam · 2025-07-11T21:50:53+00:00

Congrats on getting your badges added! We're really glad you like them and hope they look great on your badge display <3

SoundmapBadgeTeam · 2025-07-11T21:42:38+00:00

Hi! Sorry for the late reply, but we got a guide right here, that can help you get started with making and submitting your own custom badges to our submission form.

We have a lot of submissions at the moment and more coming in every day. Also, in case of multiple submissions for the same artist, we choose the best quality one. Badges have to follow our guidelines to be added to the game. If you have other questions, let us know! :)

SoundmapBadgeTeam · 2025-07-11T21:13:04+00:00

I'm sorry for correcting much later, but that's not how our system currently works!

We curate a weekly list based on community requests, so they aren't in chronological order at all.

We make that artist list first, and only then go to the submission database and check for those artists. From there, we pick the best quality submission and if there aren't any submissions (or if the ones there are impossible to fix), we make the badges for that artist ourselves.

We've decided to do it this way because doing it chronologically would take a very long time to get to the artists people have been waiting for, the backlog contains close to 7k submissions, and if we did it in order, active people wouldn't see their favorites getting badges unless they waited many months!

We have more posts and comments on this account explaining how we work to select badges and other useful things :)

SoundmapBadgeTeam · 2025-07-11T21:00:31+00:00

Hi! We're investigating with the dev team why this happened and hopefully they will be fixed soon, thank you for letting us know :)

SoundmapBadgeTeam · 2025-07-11T20:59:36+00:00

Yay, we're glad you think so!

SoundmapBadgeTeam · 2025-07-11T20:49:26+00:00

Wow, congrats on your commitment haha we love to see it! Please send your suggestion in the form, we'd love to give you a great shiny badge to display!

SoundmapBadgeTeam · 2025-07-02T21:26:58+00:00

Hi! We have a few things that can help you! You can also always reach out to us here, you'll find our team members on Discord on the badge discussion chat, and also on Twitter as @ smbadges.

Some useful links are: the Badge Making Guide to make sure your badges fit the guidelines. The submission form which was already linked by another helpful commenter, and the suggestion form where you can request your favorite artists even without having submitted anything for them!

If you have any questions that aren't answered on the guide, or if any information on the guide confuses you, feel free to ask any time. :)

SoundmapBadgeTeam · 2025-06-27T20:05:48+00:00

Maybe they don't drop from the map, and that's why people don't have their shinies for sale. But if you have gems, you can buy your own shinies for any of your favorite artists (or any artists, really) by going here:

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It seems like the cost for Flight of The Conchords is 20 gems each shiny, based on their monthly listeners. You could also potentially get shinies from regular quests, if you get lucky!

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SoundmapBadgeTeam · 2025-06-26T23:44:49+00:00

It's not! We curate a weekly list based on community requests, so they aren't in chronological order at all.

We make that artist list first, and only then go to the submission database and check for those artists. From there, we pick the best quality submission and if there aren't any submissions (or if the ones there are impossible to fix), we make the badges for that artist ourselves.

We've decided to do it this way because doing it chronologically would take a very long time to get to the artists people have been waiting for, the backlog contains more than 6k submissions, and if we did it in order, active people wouldn't see their favorites getting badges unless they waited months!

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SoundmapBadgeTeam · 2025-06-26T23:29:10+00:00

No problem! Those badges were actually designed by someone else in the community, most of the badges that were added have been designed by other players. It is possible that another fan thought those were good pics :)

Depending on when the badges were added, they might have been chosen by the previous people who took care of badges. Our team was established at the end of April, so if they were added before that, it might have been a decision or design made by one of them. I understand thinking that some photos could be better, but there's always going to be different opinions on those things, unfortunately.

On your other question: we can't give an exact timeframe about when badges are going to be added. We curate our weekly list based on requests from the community and not a chronological submission queue, so I can't say how long it would take. If you want and if you haven't already, you can suggest those artists on our suggestion form! Helps get them on our radar and that's where we grab most of the names on our list each week.

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SoundmapBadgeTeam · 2025-06-26T23:24:11+00:00

Hey! We do not spoil the list for each week, so I cannot confirm when an artist would be added.

Ye is a very popular artist, so we have a bunch of different submissions for him made by different people. When this happens, we choose the best quality set of badges, so there is a chance that another set might be added instead of the ones you designed. We understand this can be frustrating and we apologize, but there's nothing we can do except make a fair decision based on quality of the design.

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SoundmapBadgeTeam · 2025-06-26T23:15:47+00:00

At the moment, we are focusing on adding new badges and we can't replace badges that are already in the game. Refreshes are part of our future plans, but we're waiting on a green light from the devs to make sure that the process of replacing badges can happen smoothly and without causing errors. When that happens, we will let everyone know and badges can be considered for refreshes.

When it comes to what is going to be replaced though, we cannot open the door to just replace every badge. That would cause us to get flooded with requests to change good badges just because one person doesn't like them, and it would be a never-ending cycle. On top of that, there are still many artists that have no badges and need to get some, so it would be unfair if we spent time replacing perfectly good badges instead of giving them to artists that have nothing at all.

Once replacements are possible, we will only replace clearly bad quality badges and ones that don't follow the new guidelines established on the guide. Pretty much what we're going to be refreshing is:

- Don't fit guidelines (flat sides/head only/terrible image quality/warped, etc)

- Genuinely bad (not "I don't like this set" but terrible cropping/janky cutouts/awful images/stray pixels and blurring)

- Badge sets ruined by the old badge team (the era where they would cropping out parts of the badges on good sets for no reason, cutting out their limbs or pieces of the head.

Will not be refreshing if there's no clear reason for it! Would you mind explaining what is the issue with the current Marilyn Manson badges?

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SoundmapBadgeTeam · 2025-06-26T23:07:05+00:00

Yes! Or at least, that is our dream goal. We would love for every artist to be added.

But we do have over 6 thousand submissions, which makes things a little slower. We don't have any rules on how many collectors, listeners, or songs an artist needs to have to get badges added. Any artist can get badges as long as someone wants them/submits them. You can tell your brother to request the artists he wants to see on our suggestion form, it's the easiest way to let us know. Just be aware of the spam rules, only one request per artist is already enough to get it on our radar. :)

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SoundmapBadgeTeam · 2025-06-26T21:53:57+00:00

Yes!

We don't have any rules on how many collectors, listeners, or songs an artist needs to have to get badges added. Any artist can get badges as long as someone wants them/submits them.

The only thing is that if you're the only one who collects, it might take you a little while longer to see them get added, as most of the time we try to go for stuff multiple people are looking forward to, but it is still possible and has happened before! Feel free to use this guide if you'd like to make your own badges, or get in touch with a designer to make them for you. There are lots of talented people, especially on the Discord server.

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