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Well, once again, Spotify has been caught lying. Today’s listener statistics is a classic example. Spotify gives you stats daily, but today is more egregious than usual. Listener stats vary by 33% depending on whether the stats are by country or by city. If they can’t decide what to report on, I wonder how accurate their play stats are? Are they purposely underreporting those numbers too?

Underreporting plays stats would be a windfall for a company that can’t even manage to make a profit, cutting their losses to deceive their investors.

Maybe artists need to band together and force constant audits of Spotify’s books. Maybe that should be what https://weareumaw.org/ needs to do.

Well, my first real glitch on Hostinger. Tried to upgrade plugins and the site crashed. Took a few tries in the support area to figure the plugin that caused the problem. Had to delete two plugins but was only able to reinstall one of them. At least the site’s back up.

So, at least for me, Bandcamp, is an evil joke. My stats for almost 4 years don’t even amount to one days plays on streaming platforms, Spotify included. I’m not expecting any better results from tomorrow’s activity. But if youre interested, my bandcamp page is at https://jaypeach.bandcamp.com/

Well, the stats for my music​ continue to flatline, with Spotify continuing to be a drag on my progress. Spotify now only contributes about 5-10% of my total streams in a month, whereas it supposedly has 30% of the streaming market. It continues to be in 4th or 5th place in my most popular platforms. Ugh. I get most of my plays  (and money) on Deezer, Apple Music, Amazon Music, Meta platforms and YouTube.

I just hit a milestone on TikTok, 1000 followers!

I’m psyched! I just checked the data from Amazon Music’s artist app and got some terrific news. I’ve spoken here and on social media about the need of artists with smaller followings to wean themselves off of Spotify. Spotify makes money off our streams, but has recently said that they won’t pay artists until they get 1000 streams per track. What they didn’t say that once you get to the 1000 stream threashhold, whether you get backpay, or whether they confiscate the $.0032 perstream they owe you.

Anyway, now for, to me, the exciting news. Here’s the screenshot from Amazon on some stats. They show I’m doing better than most artists in my listener category in the “Daily Voice Index”. I know the numbers aren’t so high, but I’ve only been promoting Amazon Music and Apple Music to my fans for a few months. So progress is progress. I currently make more money from both of them than I do under Spotify’s old rules. And since Spotify will essentially shaft smaller artists, I feel that abandoning Spotify is in my best interest.

as the title says, new stats from ReverbNation show I’m still making a good showing. The picture says it all

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This is the latest report from ReverbNation! Fourth place!