8 Must-Know Tactics To Survive Spotify's 2024 Royalty Changes

Are you going to be left with $0 royalties? Or will you follow these 8 strategies to get to over 1000 streams on Spotify?
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[EpsodeVideoArt]

I'm giving up on Spotify entirely. It's been such a waste of time for me vs other revenue streams. Downloading the data on a 28 day schedule (and/or cleaning the data when inevitable gaps/overlaps occur), worrying about which month makes 1k streams on each song so that they can all be pushed for the following year, dealing with bot playlist attacks. All that time spent taking out the garbage gets in the way of doing things that actually generate revenue. I'm pulling out from Spotify.

[djanon]

One MASSIVE issue is people botting just to be jerks. You can order 1, 000 cheap plays from an SMM Panel for as little as 10cents. If you do that to an artist with 2 albums uploaded under 1k streams on all songs, you could spend $2 to incur a $200 fine for them, and get them banned. It also means indies falling prey to the playlist promo scam where they put you on for a day and bot you like wildfire hoping you reach out for more, will cause a $10 fine, and ban. This will not be sustainable. 1 angry commenter with $100 could practically destroy any artist who isn't famous. Just like that.

[naveedahmedny]

Definitely very concerned because artists can end up on fraudulent playlists without their knowledge/consent and they’ll get punished for it. A couple times my songs have randomly been on some sus playlists, even for a day

[chent]

I think it sucks for small artists with big catalogs. I have like 75 tracks on Spotify, and even if some of my tacks are doing way over 1000 streams a year, most of them are like maybe one stream a day. I think this is a problem spotify generated on purpose when they decided not to let smaller lables distribute on their platform themselves, just to keep distributors in the chain, as a pointless middleman, eating up the profits from most indie musicians. Always they are crying about not making enough money, however they are clearly splurging with money, who in a sense belong to musicians. I think this will get old real quick, and people will wake up to the reality of buying music directly from the musicians themself in the near future.

[DarrenCampbellmusic]

So 5 months on, can any independent artist with 100k+ streams actually validate Spotify's claims that these royalties robbed from smaller artists are going to bigger artists?? Have your royalties increased? Or was it indeed a massive lie from Spotify?

[Rolanoid]

What about artists that have lots of tracks that taken as separate entities may not be over the existing distributor payment threshold but collectively add up to being over the existing distributor payout thresholds? Now that Spotify require 1000 streams per year before royalties are paid there goes all or most of my Spotify royalties and I have been paid Spotify royalties every month since 2005. The other issue is say your track takes 11 months getting to 1000 streams and you just get over the 1000 stream threshold I don't think you get paid on the 1000 streams just the ones that are over 1000 streams and then guess what the year ends and the 1000 stream count eligibility resets. Have I got this right? If so, Spotify need to adjust their new royalty terms to take this into account otherwise it is blatant theft.

[ehpiii_music]

Yay. I go from earning less than $2 a year from Spotify to absolutely nothing.

[elpecemusiq]

Bro, you're appreciated! Thanks for this information. It needs a bit of getting used to though.

[lxndrbe]

IMHO it is important to analyse IF Spotify is really worth the efford for your kind of genre/music.
If it is not your main point of streamings (for me it is only ~2%) - simply do not publish on Spotify, there are enough other Streaming Services that even pay better ;)

[rahulmahesh]

what are your thoughts about daily playlists ? are they bot free ???.and for distributor I'm using ditto music . are they in good terms with spotify ?

[jean.marion]

Thank you so much for this video. It was very informative as are most of your videos!

I have a question: Where is all of the music stored? On the Spotify servers or the distributors servers (cloud)?

I'm just curious about what happens to the music should a distributor go out of business...

Thanks. 😊

[AndrewNeilMusic]

I am releasing a new album using the waterfall strategy. We would like to talk with you about a campaign. Do you do consulting?

[adelaniofficial]

I want to know about these 6 different types of short contents

[jakecalonius]

Really solid advice man! This video speaks to me a lot given that I'm about to release an EP. Not entirely sure how the -1k streams a month policy will effect me but taking it at face value it seems like it wont really effect anyone.

[matthewkenyonmusic]

With the waterfall release strategy, could you include an additional song that wasn't pre-released? My thought with that is that it could get more people to go to the album since there would also be new music on it.

[BrianLarney]

Hmmm...sounds like distributors are becoming labels. "Higher priced distributors and exclusive distributore are more likely go to bat for you." "Selecting a distributor is also selecting a fraternity of artists that your music will automatically be associated with." Ladies and gentlemen allow me to introduce to you, the new gatekeepers.

Why we ever messed with the old model is beyond me.

[combatplayer]

ill keep putting my stuff on spotify as long as people listen to it there. i was never there for the money, if i were i wouldve left a long time ago. potentially not getting paid for half my music is a kick in the teeth though. and sure, a song or two with under 1k streams a year isnt a big deal, but ive got ~200 tracks around at this point, if i get 800 on half of those it ads up over a while. especially if i'm already over the payment threshold from songs that do get the required streams. it's not a great argument to just be like "well you werent gonna get that money anyway" but i guess thats life when we're nothing but statistics to these companies.
also i'm a little confused at the waterfall release thing, youve been advocating for cdbaby a lot lately, but wouldnt waterfall releasing a 15 track album take the cost of that album to 150 dollars instead of 10? or am i missing something important there?

[shika]

Hey Ryan
Can you do an update video for AWAL

[Anco]

That the money doesn't reach the artist is bad reasoning. First of, it's per song, not artist, so who knows how much an artist gets. Second If you won't hit the 1000 streams the first month it will take a long time before you make up for the first month. If you get 500 (unpaid) streams first month, then it will take 100.000 streams before you make up the lost streams. (According to Spotify's own numbers). So how they can say it is to prevent money being stuck at distributor is beyond me

[evandonghue]

I want to use CD baby for distribution. I plan on focusing a lot of my marketing on Spotify. Should I consider another distributor?