Just wanted to share one of the biggest personal milestones of my music career - my fantasy music / instrumental music project Celestial Aeon Project managed to surpass 100,000 monthly listeners on Spotify few days ago! Feels amazing as I never thought I would get this far!
Will be great to see how this year will go! To all artists thinking if Spotify is worth it, everything is possible!
I don’t have many official game releases, mostly it’s just a matter of slow and steady grind for more visibility and reach. It helps to be consistent and release steadily new material with stable quality. In popular music the releases are quite spread out which puts pressure on distinct releases, but if you are efficient and can release material throughout the year, you don’t have to make “hits” but just spread the streams to your full portfolio. Just keep on building the album collection and every release will help you get further along the line.
Congratulations for this Spotify super milestone. I think you are the first audiojungler to open the door for this Spotify world. I think stream services are the future we have to get into these new medias because it will be a new world of opportunities.
Btw is it that you get some monthly revenue from it… so Spoti would be more than an exposure marketing tool but a new inconme option?
@Octopusic When you reach this level it starts to become meaningful from revenue side of things as well. I wouldn’t let go of my day job but yeah, it can be meaningful. Currently the general amount of revenue Spotify pays is about 4$ for 1000 streams but depending on aggregator and how many people you have in the project you have to share it in various ways.
Not sure about exclusive terms but non-exclusive is clear - you hold the master rights and you can do whatever you want. None of the AJ licences offered to customers allow them to publish the tunes on Spotify or any other services. You are the sole controller of that. Only way to “lose” the control is to give your master rights away. But that is quite rare situation.
By the way I did that mistake in the past. Giving master rights of a couple of tracks. I has no idea about music publishing at that moment. It was my first music contract job. Anyways the bright side is, i still earn money from those tracks and they were not the best tracks of mine anyway.
I knew what non-exclusive is all about, but i wonder how the exclusive tracks work for publishing on spotify.