Re-releasing tracks with no interest in keeping the streams

[Suyanisqatsi]

Hi guys,

Been looking around your site but I couldn't find an answer to my doubt.

Ok, I have recently uploaded a few songs on Spotify through a distributor. The thing is, once they were uploaded I realised I had followed the loudness penalty rules too scrupulously and they sound too low, plus, the mastering of the tracks I made myself is not good, thus I have not promoted these tracks and have decided to take them to a professional mastering engineer so he masters them and afterwards reupload them in a few months with time enough to do the right promo.

I have no interest in keeping the streams of these tracks as they are not getting any, I'd rather make a good impression and make everyone think they are new releases in a few months; should I tell my distributor to remove them and then upload the new mixes later on? Is there any way to just hide these tracks on my profile? Should I change the metadata of the tracks or keep it the same? I read sometimes a track doesn't fully disappear when it's removed and that some people get communications on removed tracks.

Also, I think I could upload a few test tracks just to check their mastering/loudness quality to take notes so this doesn't happen again, and then remove them, would you recommend it or not?

What do you suggest that I should do? As I said, I am not interested in keeping the plays of these tracks, unlike most people, as when I do the promo and re-release them I want the tracks to be waiting for release or be brand new releases, so...?
Thanks in advance

[Eni]

Hey there @Suyanisqatsi,

Thanks for reaching out about this in the Community!

We'd recommend you reach out directly to out Artist support team. They will be able to answer your questions and give you more detailed info on this.

Hope this helps 🙂