Category Archives: Spotify
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 [...]
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 [...]
Spotify is the saving grace
Love or hate DigitalMusicNews.com but you sure can find brilliant comments there. Here is one so good it is worth sharing: JW: MTV doesn’t play music. More kids are watching Jon Stewart than Letterman or Conan or Leno. Satellite radio costs money, I don’t know any kids with SiriusXM (and even then, you pay money [...]
Spotify payout Q2 2012
New data. The rate per stream is still about $0.005. My statements show $0.005 in April, $0.0049 in May and $0.0053 in June. The band Little Things That Kill agreed to publish their part of my statement. Here is the Google spreadsheet with their streaming data. The developments over the last two years: Spotify grows, still the [...]