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Spotify payouts Q4 2012
My Zimbalam statements for Oktober show a nice rate of €0.0051 (about $.0066) for all Spotify streams. In November the rate per stream drops to € 0.0040 ((about $.0052). Nothing really new, the rate has been rather steady over 2012. 71 cent streams? The December data however are astonishing. All kinds of rates from € [...]
Spotify payout Q3 2012 and some extras
New data, but nothing really new as far as the Spotify payout rates are concerned. The rate per stream is steady, about $0.005. My royalty statements show $0.0054 in July, $0.0054 in August and $0.0052 in September. But I do have some interesting extras. Every stream over 30 seconds gets paid in full My previous [...]
Your own personal…. Spotify
Music discovery on Spotify gets personal. How? If you can spare an hour, just watch the video of the press event. Here are a few highlights: Spotify will get ‘Follow’, ‘Discover’, and ‘Collection’ tabs. The Follow tab Follow all the people who turn you on to the music you care about. Find out what friends [...]
That’s what you get: Tribute version Skyfall #34 most streamed song on Spotify
Would you fall for a tribute version of your favorite song? Maybe not you, but millions of others clearly do! Check your Top Lists in Spotify, set the Tracks List to “everywhere” and look. There it is: a tribute version of Adele’s Skyfall is number 34 in the list of most streams songs worldwide. That’s what you [...]
Spotify Has Another Holdout: Rihanna…
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You pay $10 or even €10 a month for Spotify and still labels or artists think they can force us to buy a new release by withholding the album from Spotify. We have seen Adele, Coldplay, The Black Keys, Taylor Swift and now Rihanna has joined the League of Big Name Spotifobics. No sign of her new [...]
One Direction’s album Up All Night pulled from Spotify (updated)
Has Simon Cowell’s label Syco Music decided to remove the Up All Night album of the popular boyband One Direction? Last Saturday One Direction fans started complaining that they could no longer play the album. @spotify Where the hell is One Direction’s Up All Night album? — TeamGrimmieRawwks (@Meepster3) oktober 28, 2012 @spotify dear spotify, [...]
How both labels and Spotify can benefit from release windows
It’s happening again. Adele’s Skyfall is not on Spotify and Taylor Swift’s new album Red will not appear on streaming services until her next album is released, The reason is obvious. Labels and/or artists don’t want to give away the music for free in fear of losing sales. We can argue all we want to try to prove that [...]