Spotify reports bogus numbers to their patners. Here’s an example.
And as you can see, Spotify only reports 43% of the streams to SongStats.
And if you’re an artist looking to be paid more fairly, join http://Weareumaw.org to help a law they’re pushing to get paid 1 cent extra per stream, over and above what you’re already getting paid.
From Spotify
The reason I say BandCamp is sad is the discovery just sucks. I have fewer plays on BandCamp in four years as I have in a week on Spotify, a platform I don’t push. Spotify just sucks, where I’m getting less than 10% of my streams. So if you don’t find my music on BandCamp, it’s an also also ran.
This is in response to BCs selling our music to AI companies to generate fake music and fake streams to enhance their bottom line, cutting out artists from their efforts. After all does BC pay you to sell yourself out?
It’s easy to spot the trolls on InstaGram. They’re the shitposter whose account is private. Most likely less than 20 posts.
Well, I’ve decided to keep a journal of the musical ideas I’m working on. During August, I had 7 working sessions where I did recordings that I’m considering keeping. This apparently totalled over 20 songs. And the ideas that I had during those recording sessions have completely escaped me. So I’m planning to record my thoughts in a journal with notes on the details of the recording sessions.
Taking a break from making music tonight. Yeah, it’s 3:20 am, but I’ll get back at it until 5 am. I find my most productive time is after 11pm. And since there a few dogs barking, the vocals I rarely record are without extraneous noise. One mic I have, the RØDE NT-1, can pick up sounds as quiet as 5dB.
