Spotify deals (or not)/earnings
Posted: Tue Dec 01, 2009 5:12 pm
Howdy. new here. Dubstep ... and Spotify addict. After having noticed Hyperdub / Tectonic / Earwax catalogues were all removed recently from Spotify, I started to wonder what's going on. And I tried to do my homework (well, reading everything related spotify on the web for a start) to get the picture...and I still have many holes in the picture 
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as there are many entries on spotify blog where we can read "aggregator didn't have the rights" etc so we removed as soon as we know yadda yadda" I feel like the general scheme is : aggregators send everything they have, usually without telling the label(s) they signed with (something like "eh you were ok for boomkat, I thought you were ok for spotify" ?
) Then the label hears about it and decide to let it go...or not.
If you're in the "No way" category, feel free to share your reasons/vision, I'm all ears
(and I'm not young enough anymore to claim everything has to be free, don't worry 
)
Now the money part for those who're onboard
As Spotify completely refuses to discuss/disclose deals with any aggregator/label/artist, we have to rely on the other side to get info.
So far I see quite serious contradictions between what few artists shared as info and what was previously known/what aggregators disclose.
one member here (Alien Pimp) told us in another Spotify thread he got...4 cents for 160 plays... meaning hardly 0.03 cent per play.
I read something similar about some finnish metal band whose name I forgot
On the other hand, there were mentions of 0.1 cent per play previously on various articles , AND more surprisingly, i also read this from some french aggregator
http://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuse ... =516195913
If you have tracks on spotify and can share some info about distribution, earnings & so on, plz share it too
.as there are many entries on spotify blog where we can read "aggregator didn't have the rights" etc so we removed as soon as we know yadda yadda" I feel like the general scheme is : aggregators send everything they have, usually without telling the label(s) they signed with (something like "eh you were ok for boomkat, I thought you were ok for spotify" ?
) Then the label hears about it and decide to let it go...or not. If you're in the "No way" category, feel free to share your reasons/vision, I'm all ears
(and I'm not young enough anymore to claim everything has to be free, don't worry )Now the money part for those who're onboard
As Spotify completely refuses to discuss/disclose deals with any aggregator/label/artist, we have to rely on the other side to get info.
So far I see quite serious contradictions between what few artists shared as info and what was previously known/what aggregators disclose.
one member here (Alien Pimp) told us in another Spotify thread he got...4 cents for 160 plays... meaning hardly 0.03 cent per play.
I read something similar about some finnish metal band whose name I forgot
On the other hand, there were mentions of 0.1 cent per play previously on various articles , AND more surprisingly, i also read this from some french aggregator
http://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuse ... =516195913
not that I especially love the use of "anticipate" here ... so is this all a lie and the best indie artists will ever get from spotify is 0.03 cent per track played ?we anticipate the royalty rates to be 1-2 Euro cents per ‘subscriber stream’ and 0.1 Euro cents per ‘free stream’.
If you have tracks on spotify and can share some info about distribution, earnings & so on, plz share it too