Another great article... Eleven months ago I wrote an essay ‘To stream of not to stream’ which discusses this very subject. It was written before the latest horror from Spotify was revealed. We have not distributed our new album to any audio only streaming services and have sold more physical merch and driven fans to Bandcamp (and what do we do about that situation) and YouTube. It’s worked. https://vibes.starlite-campbell.com/p/to-stream-or-not-to-stream
Another great article... Eleven months ago I wrote an essay ‘To stream of not to stream’ which discusses this very subject. It was written before the latest horror from Spotify was revealed. We have not distributed our new album to any audio only streaming services and have sold more physical merch and driven fans to Bandcamp (and what do we do about that situation) and YouTube. It’s worked. https://vibes.starlite-campbell.com/p/to-stream-or-not-to-stream
So, is You Tube Music better?
Thanks so much for sharing and clarifying this unbelievably nonsensical situation.
Wow, I’m a bit surprised by the responses to this news on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/AppleMusic/s/ML0DZjQBCa
You write:
"And let me tell you, up in the blue stratosphere it’s not going so great either. Gross earnings from Spotify remain an average $0.003 a stream"
In the blue block it's up to 1B streams (1.000.000.000).
This means: 1.000.000.000 * $0.003 = $3 Million
3 Million US$ is not too bad I think.