bapu

jamesg1213

timidi

jamesg1213
I also understand that Spotify pays 0.4 cents per streaming play, so you'll need 6000 plays per month to get $24. Depressing really.

James, I think you meant  $0.00430000 per stream thru spotify.
BTW, 6000 X .4 = $2400

I said 0.4 cents Tim, not 0.4 dollars

butt butt butt you rote .4 which is 40 cents hear in Umerikka.

That would require a dollar sign in front, shirley?
 
Sheesh, 0.4 cents = $0.004 or 4/1000th of a dollar.
 
It's a very small amount of money.
 
K?

1.00 = Juan doll hair
0.40 = 40% of Juan doll hair (farty centz)
0.04 = 4% of Juan doll hair (far sentz)
 
Whiff or whiff out a $ it's all the same, Shirley.

I'll put it another way
 
(she cried, waving her wooden leg, more in hope than anger)
 
0.000B*ll*cks.

Heh. Needed a chuckle after this clusterfart of a morning simply attempting to get some bleeding groceries. And people wonder why I never leave my apartment.
 
As far as 0.00-bajillionitycents+1 for a streaming clickola it's better than nothing and I intend to completely flood everywhere I can with as many tunes as possible so that next to nothing could slowly end up being next to something.
 
Put it this way... $20 added to my monthly pittance means I can add just a little more desperately needed protein to my diet which helps me be just a little bit stronger which makes me a little less sore which makes me a little bit saner which makes me a little bit more productive which makes me a LOT happier.
 
When you got nothin' next to nothin' looks pretty freaking awesome.
 

spacey

slartabartfast
Jeeze. I thought the whole point of online distribution was to free the consuming public from the necessity of buying.

I think that is how it is.

This made me lol too because it is so true. I personally don't mind people "stealing" my music because I firmly believe in the "Pay What You Can" philosophy and know that a) the more people hear my stuff (if they like it) they'll tell others and b) for every "thief" out there there is going to be others who will drop some change into the hat. Perhaps that mindset comes from my busking days or all the gigs I've done where a jug gets passed around every set. Better to get people in the club listening and having a good time than to put up an arbitrary monetary barrier and play to an empty house.
 
I'm also considering releasing material on youtube and getting in on some of that sweet google ads money. Just have some of those stupid popups or whatever and the world gets access to the tunes and I get a few extra micropennies tossed my way.
 
It's like busking but in front of potentially MILLIONS of people.
 
I figure it's also a good way to collect free stats on how much people are interested in my material. Like if I finally got my shiz together enough to put together a proper album (which will happen) then if I decide to approach labels or film companies I can say "Look at these click counts!! LOOK AT THEM!!!"
 
Obviously this all relies on me not completely sucking arse but after 25 years and an uncountable number of packed gigs I could probably allow myself the presumption that I don't suck arse... at least not as a song writer. As a producer/engineer? Probably... but I'm working on that... like a mofo.
 
Anyway, I was in a horrendous mood because of the absolute crap that happened earlier today in the meat world but the humor ya'll have provided and just thinking along these positive lines has me feeling better.
 
Dog bless the Coughie Haus!

Beepster
Heh. Needed a chuckle after this clusterfart of a morning simply attempting to get some bleeding groceries.

Are you a cannibal now Beep?
 

Now?
 
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perhaps i've said too much...

Looks like you've got some ear on your chin there...

i'm very sensitive about my oozing chin ear... :-/

Shhh! He's moonlighting as a cloned appendage surrogate. It pays almost 00.0.043234.9~ cents per visit. Some people'll do anything for half a shiny piece of copper plated lead.

Actually Spotify pays around 0.6 cents per play. I'm not sure how this works out in the case of partial plays. I seem to spend half my time on it only listening to half of a track (I do a lot of searching for new music on it). 
 
This may not sound like much, but it all adds up. And it will get bigger as Spotify's user base grows (presuming it will). Currently, a global hit album will earn around $425,000 per month from Spotify. A niche indie album will earn on average $3,300 per month, a classic rock album around $17,000 per month. I guess those figures would have more context if we knew what kind of effect Spotify is having on sales of CD's and downloads. 
 
Spotify projects that its audience will grow to 40m (I don't think it's that far fetched). If it does, then the same global hit album would look to earn $2.1m a month, while the niche indie album would be making around $17,000 a month.