Your private stats page: What the four numbers mean and how to use them during a competition run

The confirmation screen after you submit to SongBattle does two jobs. It tells you your entry is under review, and it hands you a link — an address starting with /me/ under the heading "Your private stats link," with a line asking you to bookmark it so you can track your votes, profile views and social clicks.

Most artists screenshot the first part and lose the second. Two weeks later, mid-competition, they're emailing to ask how many votes they have.

That link is the only artist-facing dashboard on the platform. It shows four numbers and nothing else, and the site hands it to you once, on the confirmation screen (and, on the device you submitted from, a shortcut back to it). This is the manual: what the page contains, how each counter actually moves, when it resets, and how to turn four integers into a decision about where to spend next week's promotion.

The link itself

The address is songbattle.co/me/ followed by a long random token. The token is generated the moment your submission saves, which is why the link can appear on the confirmation before anyone has reviewed your entry. There is no login and no password. Whoever has the link can open the page, so treat it the way you'd treat a password-reset link: don't post it, don't drop it in a group chat.

Three things the page is built to be:

• Private. The address is blocked for search engines in the site's robots rules, and the page itself is marked no-index, so it won't surface in a search for your name.
• Yours only. The page shows one entry — your artist name, song title, genre, status and four counters. It never shows your email, and the database function behind it returns nothing else.
• Live on load. Every time you open it, the page re-reads the current totals. There's no refresh timer and no "last updated" stamp. Reload and you get the numbers as they stand now.

What it is not: an account. The site doesn't email it to you automatically, there's no resend button, and you can't generate a new one yourself. More on recovery at the end.

Before approval: the pending banner

Open the page right after submitting and you'll see a banner above the counters: Your entry is pending. Your profile and these stats start counting once it's approved.

That sentence is literal. Every submission arrives as pending and a person reviews it before it goes live — usually within a couple of days, per the FAQ. Until the status flips to approved, your profile page doesn't exist publicly, nobody can vote for you, and the counting function ignores events for your entry entirely. All four cards sit at zero no matter how many people you've sent your name to.

If the review goes the other way, the same banner shows rejected instead, and the counters stay at zero for good. What review looks for, and what happens to the fee either way, is covered in who can enter and what gets rejected.

Once approved, the banner disappears and the four cards start moving. Here's what each one is counting.

Votes

The gold card. This is your verified vote total for the current round — the number of submitted ballots that included you and cleared the automatic checks. It is the same number shown as "Current votes" on your public profile and in your row on the leaderboard, which lists the top ten. There is no private, larger number hiding behind it.

A few things that follow from how it's computed:

• One ballot, one vote for you. Every voter submits a ballot of exactly three artists (the number shown on the Vote page). If you're on it, your count goes up by one. A fan can't vote for you three times by picking only you.
• Flagged ballots don't count. When too many different devices vote from the same connection, the later ballots are recorded but held for review instead of counted. Those won't show here unless a person approves them. How SongBattle's anti-fraud voting works covers the layers.
• It resets when a new round starts. A round is a voting period inside a competition. When the team opens a new round, every artist's total goes back to zero and every device gets to vote again. Your stats page shows the current round's count, not a lifetime figure.

Because the page shows a total and not a timeline, you can't see when the votes arrived. Keep your own log — the section on ratios below explains why.

Profile views

Counted once each time your public profile page loads. That is the whole rule, and it has consequences worth knowing:

• Every opened share link is a view. The Share button on your profile copies the page address (or opens your phone's share sheet). Each person who taps that link and lands on your page adds one.
• Your own visits count. Refresh your profile ten times to admire the photo and you've added ten views. Don't, if you want the number to mean something.
• Plays in the Vote gallery don't count. Fans can press play on your video from the gallery card without opening your profile. Those plays are real listens, but the view counter only fires on the profile page itself. The same is true of the "Discover More Artists" grid fans see after they've voted.
• A view is not a listen. Someone can land on your page and leave in two seconds. Treat views as the top of your funnel, not proof anyone heard the song.

Instagram clicks and TikTok clicks

Counted when a fan taps the Instagram or TikTok link in the social row on your profile. If you left those fields blank on the form, the links don't render and the cards stay at zero.

Spotify is the exception you need to know about. If you added an open.spotify.com link, it appears in the same row and fans can tap it — but the counting function has no Spotify event, so those taps are never recorded anywhere. There is no Spotify card because there is no Spotify count. Don't read the missing number as missing interest.

The ratios, with worked math

Four totals on their own are vanity. Two ratios turn them into diagnosis. The figures below are made up to show the arithmetic — they're not platform averages.

Views to votes. 400 profile views and 60 votes: 60 ÷ 400 = 0.15, so 15 percent of the people who opened your page ended up on a submitted ballot that included you. If that ratio is low while views are high, the problem is on the page — the song isn't holding people through the watch gate (the vote button stays locked until 25 percent of the song has played), or the first 30 seconds of the video are losing them. If the ratio is healthy but the vote count is small, you don't have a page problem, you have a traffic problem: more people need to land there.

Views to social clicks. 400 views and 40 Instagram clicks: 40 ÷ 400 = 0.10, a 10 percent click-through. This one measures whether your bio and photo make someone curious enough to follow you. If it's near zero, rewrite the 500-character bio — it's the only prose on the page — and check that the handle you entered is right. If the click ratio is fine but your follower count isn't moving, the problem is on Instagram's side of the tap; how to grow Instagram as an indie rapper is the fix for that.

One wrinkle when reading views against votes: a fan who opens your profile, plays enough of the song and adds you to their ballot has not voted yet. The ballot only counts once they've picked two more artists and submitted it on the Vote page. So views can run a day ahead of votes, and a push that looks like it flopped tonight may show up tomorrow.

Keep a daily log. The page shows four totals, not history. Open it at the same time each day and write the numbers down. Day-over-day differences tell you which post, show or text blast actually moved people:

Day	Views	Votes	IG clicks	TikTok clicks	What you did
Mon	120	14	9	3	Posted the link in a story
Tue	310	41	24	8	Texted the list
Wed	335	49	26	9	Nothing

The Tuesday jump says more than any single total could: 190 new views and 27 new votes from one text, against 25 views and 8 votes from a day of nothing. That's the case for a direct list made with your own numbers, and email and text lists for rappers shows how to build one.

The toolkit under the numbers

Below the counters sits a panel titled "Your artist toolkit" with four free resources. They're hand-picked for the moment right after an entry goes live, in a deliberate order:

• Music Competition Promotion Checklist. The first thing to open. A phase-by-phase plan for before, during and after a run, built so you never have to beg or buy votes. If your views are flat, start here.
• Playlist Pitch Template. For when the competition traffic has plateaued and you want the song working somewhere else at the same time.
• Six-Week Single Release Calendar. If you entered a song you're also rolling out, this keeps the two timelines from fighting each other.
• Song Evaluation Scorecard. Useful in reverse: score your own entry honestly on the five dimensions and you'll usually find out why the views-to-votes ratio is what it is.

An "All" link takes you to the full resources library.

If you lose the link

It happens constantly. Two recovery paths exist, and neither involves a password reset.

The same device. If you open the Enter page on the phone or laptop you submitted from, a "Welcome back" banner appears at the top with a "View my stats" button. That shortcut lives in that browser's local storage only — it won't be there on another device, and clearing your browser data removes it. On that device you'll also notice a small gold "Your song" badge on your own row on the leaderboard and in the gallery; same mechanism, same limitation.

A different device. Email artist-questions@songbattle.co from the address you entered with. The team can look up the link for your entry. Expect a human reply rather than an instant one.

If a link you have opens to a page that says Stats Link Not Found, the token is wrong — usually a truncated paste. The link isn't dead; you just don't have all of it.

Numbers are only useful if you act on them

The page's own footer says it plainly: share your profile link and socials to grow these numbers. Four counters won't win you anything by themselves. The artist who checks them daily, notices that Tuesday's text did more than a week of stories, and does the thing that worked again — that artist moves the gold card.

Everything on the stats page points back at one number, and the number everyone is chasing is explained in how the SongBattle prize pool works. If you haven't entered yet, the link that starts all this is waiting on the other side of the entry form — and this time, bookmark it.

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Related:

• What happens after you hit submit: A behind-the-scenes look at how SongBattle runs a competition
• How to read the SongBattle leaderboard: What the numbers actually mean (and what they don't)