Spotify Is Eating the Entire Music Business?

[dayjob]

though the 80s had some good top 40 w/all the synth bands and that catchy 80s stuff.

What's your top 40 from the 80's?

I just mean in general. There was lots of pop “top 40” music that was diverse and catchy. Lots of hip hop and electro type things were happening too. Breakdancing, metal heads, goth kids all coming to life as subcultures and leaking into the mainstream a bit. I graduated high school in 89. A lot was happening musically in the 80s and all of it dovetailed into the 90s which were amazingly fun and interesting

[osiris]

80s Playlist.
Depeche Mode - Just Can't Get Enough
'Whitney Houston - I Wanna Dance With Somebody (Hot Tracks Mix)
Human League - Don't You Want Me
Cyndi Lauper - Girls Just Wanna Have Fun/ She Bop
New Order - Blue Monday
B-52s - Love Shack
Donna Summer - She Works Hard
Gap Band - You Dropped a Bomb On Me
Indeep - Last Night a DJ Saved My Life
Pointer Sisters - entire album
Grace Jones -Pull Up To the Bumper
Sheila E - The Glamorous Life
David Bowie - Let's Dance
Shannon - Let The Music Play
Duran Duran - Hungry Like a Wolf
Expose - Come Go With Me
MARRS - Pump Up the Volume
Culture Club - Time (Clock of the Heart)
FunFun - Color My Love
Kelly Marie - Feels like I'm in Love
Devo - Whip It
Blondie - Rapture
Eurythmics - Sweet Dreams
Technotronic - Pump Up the Jam
S.O.S. Band - Take Your Time
Go-Go's - whole album
Yaz - Situation
Patrice Rushen - Forget Me Nots
Nu Shooz - I Can't Wait
Prince - Kiss
Dead or Alive - You Spin Me Round
Corey Hart - Sunglasses at Night

[vurt]

80s Playlist.
Depeche Mode - Just Can't Get Enough
'Whitney Houston - I Wanna Dance With Somebody (Hot Tracks Mix)
Human League - Don't You Want Me
Cyndi Lauper - Girls Just Wanna Have Fun/ She Bop
New Order - Blue Monday
B-52s - Love Shack
Donna Summer - She Works Hard
Gap Band - You Dropped a Bomb On Me
Indeep - Last Night a DJ Saved My Life
Pointer Sisters - entire album
Grace Jones -Pull Up To the Bumper
Sheila E - The Glamorous Life
David Bowie - Let's Dance
Shannon - Let The Music Play
Duran Duran - Hungry Like a Wolf
Expose - Come Go With Me
MARRS - Pump Up the Volume
Culture Club - Time (Clock of the Heart)
FunFun - Color My Love
Kelly Marie - Feels like I'm in Love
Devo - Whip It
Blondie - Rapture
Eurythmics - Sweet Dreams
Technotronic - Pump Up the Jam
S.O.S. Band - Take Your Time
Go-Go's - whole album
Yaz - Situation
Patrice Rushen - Forget Me Nots
Nu Shooz - I Can't Wait
Prince - Kiss
Dead or Alive - You Spin Me Round
Corey Hart - Sunglasses at Night

no fat larry?

[osiris]

who's fat larry?

[seafire]

who's fat larry?

[seafire]

Spotify is just doing what record labels have always done, rip off the artists.

[vurt]

who's fat larry?

[CrystalWizard]

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This is interesting (in a vile way).

[osiris]

Distrokid has paid me : $2.07 for a total of 828 streams. (of which they took their 20%) They have too many weird tiny little streaming services that pay nothing. One song got 165 streams. My takeaway was ZERO. Another had 146 and I got a whole penny.
Pandora has the best payout.
Here's a good article from March :
https://www.whippedcreamsounds.com/dist ... rtnership/

[bulevardi]

Until a couple of years ago I had a lots more streams on SoundCloud, but from some point, it all want to almost no streams anymore.
Anyway, I still prefer platforms like SoundCloud (also YouTube or Bandcamp), where you can have more interaction with fans: comments, messaging, sharing,... rather than an anonymous Spotify / Amazon / iTunes,...

The knowledge about who's listening, and why, is more important sometimes than just a high number. Wow... xxx streams, but from who ?

[VariKusBrainZ]

viewtopic.php?p=9016249#p9016249

This is interesting (in a vile way).

The streaming equivalent of insider trading crossed with influencer dodgy bitcoin floats

[osiris]

What I'm wondering is Spotify has all these stakes in other companies. There are songs I put out that get played hundreds of times yet I don't get a penny. But other songs with similar plays gets some penny action. When Distrokid shows you a breakdown, they never really show you what got played where. There's also a space for Soundcloud. I get maybe @ 500 plays on SC per month, yet don't get any money (because I don't have a Pro account).
I guess the only people making money is the shareholders and CEO.

[mjolnir]

yeah, i'm not a fan of streaming when it comes to the industry changes.
it's kind of a divide and conquer of us musicians.

[VitaminD]

Distrokid has paid me : $2.07 for a total of 828 streams. (of which they took their 20%) They have too many weird tiny little streaming services that pay nothing. One song got 165 streams. My takeaway was ZERO. Another had 146 and I got a whole penny.
Pandora has the best payout.
Here's a good article from March :
https://www.whippedcreamsounds.com/dist ... rtnership/

Mp3.com still owes me $10.93 in Pay for Play. After 20 years of interest, they owe me the equivalence of a Philly cheesesteak and a large iced tea. Or 9 and 3/4 jumbo Chocolate Chip cookies.

Mp3.com, if you are reading this, don't think I have forgotten that you still owe me money!

[osiris]

I saw a story about the guy that started Patreon. He spent $10k of his own money building these fantastic looking robots to do his music video. It was a great video and it got millions of views on Youtube, and he ended up getting paid $156.00 for his millions of views (while no telling how much YT made off ad revenues from him), and he thought there has to be a better way artists can make money and earn an actual living. So he started Patreon.