When you look at the breakdown of those streams and those listeners. 84% of them come from Spotify's algorithmic playlists or radios or autoplay. At the end of April i got a message from Spotify saying I had 2753 listeners in April of which 2472 were new listeners. - ThreadSky

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davejgiles.bsky.social • 9 days ago

When you look at the breakdown of those streams and those listeners. 84% of them come from Spotify's algorithmic playlists or radios or autoplay.

At the end of April i got a message from Spotify saying I had 2753 listeners in April of which 2472 were new listeners.

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davejgiles.bsky.social•9 days ago

Why do so many artists moan about this? Why is this not part of the story that we put out.

Sure the payment per stream is lower than we'd like it to be, but over 80% of those streams were from people who had no idea who i was until Spotify told them the song was there.

davejgiles.bsky.social•9 days ago

This was all done with zero marketing, a few social media posts from me and that's it. I was on holiday when I released the song.

davejgiles.bsky.social•9 days ago

I know the owner is a billionaire and billionaires are bad, but name a time in history when an unknown artist could get that much reach from a song without any marketing budget, radio or tv.

Perhaps I've not framed this as well as i had, but in my opinion Spotify is good for artists.

davejgiles.bsky.social•9 days ago

screenshots from 3rd May

davejgiles.bsky.social•9 days ago

The song for those who want to check it :D
https://open.spotify.com/track/42c1QvxmRhfORrQP1pYw0m?si=aea288214d624de1

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