They send me a monthly email detailing the number of plays I received as an artist, and it averages around 300.
So each track is getting around 10 plays per month.
So none of them come anywhere close to the minimum threshold.
I made around $10/year from Spotify plays, it's a pittance, but over all the streaming platforms I would get enough for a new plugin each year, this makes it "worthwhile".
I absolutely will not allow Spotify to have content on their platform without reimbursement.
The only people losing from this are the handful of fans who like my music.
If I understand correctly it's each and every track needs 1k plays. As an artist over all my tracks I'd meet the threshold of 1k plays, but I don't think that's how it works.
If they really cared about musicians they would have just left it at fining the aggregators for allowing crap on the platform. Just a tiny amount of KYC from the aggregators would solve the problem, but instead the aggregators were just as greedy as Spotify and were happy to allow any old shit in, so they could grab another slice of the pie.
They send me a monthly email detailing the number of plays I received as an artist, and it averages around 300.
So each track is getting around 10 plays per month.
So none of them come anywhere close to the minimum threshold.
I made around $10/year from Spotify plays, it's a pittance, but over all the streaming platforms I would get enough for a new plugin each year, this makes it "worthwhile".
I absolutely will not allow Spotify to have content on their platform without reimbursement.
The only people losing from this are the handful of fans who like my music.