Thanks man! Yeah I noticed that you’ve stopped and I don’t blame you. We just gotta get creative with selling our music directly to consumers. I feel like it might head that way anyways since most people are already getting tired of subscription based products.
@@AdilConstantineMusic yeah thanks man. I switched to all live tbh. Doing gigs with my band where I live, earned more in our first gig than I have in all my Spotify streams combined. And it’s visceral too. I learned a tonne from putting tunes out over the pandemic, but now I can take it or leave it tbh. Music is music, so long as we keep doing it and get something back that’s the important thing. But doing it for nothing is a mugs game. I wouldn’t do a gig for free. No difference putting out streams and not getting paid. Shocking strategy, makes no sense to me. Keep doing you dude, onwards and upwards.
@@TheFrenchWeddingTrumpeter that’s awesome man, good for you! Lives are awesome, it’s a whole different experience but not everyone is comfortable playing live 🙂 wish you all the best dude, thanks for watching and sharing your thoughts 🙌🏽
Man its so frustrating. Like its not already hard enough. We pay for our equipment, mixing/mastering services, and distribution just to earn a fraction of a cent and they want to take that away from us. I've been at this for 3+ years now and have $1.54 in my distrokid account lol It might not be much but I'm proud of that dollar 🤣 I even framed it and put it up on my wall. Now they want to take that money to funnel it to bigger artists that probably don't even need it. You would think it would be the other way around like once you reach a certain threshold the pay rate changes. Idk man, I'm not sure what the answer is. Do we all just make websites and sell our music direct to consumers?
Bro I feel your pain. They said that money is just sitting in your distributor account because it's less than the payout threshold they have. Im like "So??? why do you care ? that money is gonna add up until I can pull it out" At least im getting paid my dues. Im getting my tracks out of Spotify and just gonna link up other streaming services like Apple Music (They pay a higher rate anyways) and focus on Bandcamp to sell my music directly to my audience. 🤷🏼♂️
hey, don't pull your music down. That's what they want. Lets take up their server space. As a user, never use Spotify again. All other streaming services have better audio quality and pay the artist more. Cancel you Premium, delete all your playlists and go elsewhere. Spotify will be a shithole for brainless and soulless AI music in a few years anyway.
The thing is by removing your music from there then your audience will go somewhere else I.e. Apple Music or Amazon Music to listen to your music. The more artists that remove their music from Spotify the less users they will have. So true though about other platforms pay more and have better audio quality.
@@AdilConstantineMusic I think Spotify would be glad to see smaller artist leave. Less payouts and less admin costs, support and less risks to be scammed.. what will hurt them is staying as small artists ang stop the premium and streaming as users. Artists can ask their fans to use more ethical and better services like Deezer and Tidal etc. Deezer is also free with comercials. Why are we sticking with Spotify
Great video man, I am on your side. I stopped publishing to Spotify a while go. This has definitely made my mind that I’m not going back!
Thanks man! Yeah I noticed that you’ve stopped and I don’t blame you. We just gotta get creative with selling our music directly to consumers. I feel like it might head that way anyways since most people are already getting tired of subscription based products.
@@AdilConstantineMusic yeah thanks man. I switched to all live tbh. Doing gigs with my band where I live, earned more in our first gig than I have in all my Spotify streams combined. And it’s visceral too. I learned a tonne from putting tunes out over the pandemic, but now I can take it or leave it tbh. Music is music, so long as we keep doing it and get something back that’s the important thing. But doing it for nothing is a mugs game. I wouldn’t do a gig for free. No difference putting out streams and not getting paid. Shocking strategy, makes no sense to me. Keep doing you dude, onwards and upwards.
@@TheFrenchWeddingTrumpeter that’s awesome man, good for you! Lives are awesome, it’s a whole different experience but not everyone is comfortable playing live 🙂 wish you all the best dude, thanks for watching and sharing your thoughts 🙌🏽
@@AdilConstantineMusic likewise man, good to chat
Man its so frustrating. Like its not already hard enough. We pay for our equipment, mixing/mastering services, and distribution just to earn a fraction of a cent and they want to take that away from us. I've been at this for 3+ years now and have $1.54 in my distrokid account lol It might not be much but I'm proud of that dollar 🤣 I even framed it and put it up on my wall. Now they want to take that money to funnel it to bigger artists that probably don't even need it. You would think it would be the other way around like once you reach a certain threshold the pay rate changes. Idk man, I'm not sure what the answer is. Do we all just make websites and sell our music direct to consumers?
Bro I feel your pain. They said that money is just sitting in your distributor account because it's less than the payout threshold they have. Im like "So??? why do you care ? that money is gonna add up until I can pull it out" At least im getting paid my dues.
Im getting my tracks out of Spotify and just gonna link up other streaming services like Apple Music (They pay a higher rate anyways) and focus on Bandcamp to sell my music directly to my audience. 🤷🏼♂️
hey, don't pull your music down. That's what they want. Lets take up their server space. As a user, never use Spotify again. All other streaming services have better audio quality and pay the artist more. Cancel you Premium, delete all your playlists and go elsewhere. Spotify will be a shithole for brainless and soulless AI music in a few years anyway.
The thing is by removing your music from there then your audience will go somewhere else I.e. Apple Music or Amazon Music to listen to your music. The more artists that remove their music from Spotify the less users they will have.
So true though about other platforms pay more and have better audio quality.
@@AdilConstantineMusic I think Spotify would be glad to see smaller artist leave. Less payouts and less admin costs, support and less risks to be scammed.. what will hurt them is staying as small artists ang stop the premium and streaming as users. Artists can ask their fans to use more ethical and better services like Deezer and Tidal etc. Deezer is also free with comercials. Why are we sticking with Spotify