Any Spotify Users ? Can you check this out

dee · Nov 11, 2019

Hi All,

Favour to ask. If there are any spotify users out there, would you mind checking this out and following if you feel that way inclined. We dabble in music (Modern'ish Country) and first release out. Opinions / I hate its / Meh's welcome !

Light It Up

Thanks !

DesD · Nov 11, 2019

Tons of potential there.

dee · Nov 11, 2019

DesD said:
Tons of potential there.

Thank you.

dig bick · Nov 11, 2019

No bandcamp/ soundcloud upload for us old farts?

dee · Nov 11, 2019

dig bick said:
No bandcamp/ soundcloud upload for us old farts?

Was hoping for some Spotify follows as its a commercial release

dig bick · Nov 11, 2019

Ah gotcha. Still - worth putting everywhere for maximum exposure?

dee · Nov 11, 2019

dig bick said:
Ah gotcha. Still - worth putting everywhere for maximum exposure?

Yep. Probably right, although Soundcloud doesn't generally result in sales or streams on other platforms.

dig bick · Nov 11, 2019

1000 plays equals pennies on Spotify isn't it? Get picked up for use on an Ad and you get £20k. Isn't giving content away the new way to make money

ian · Nov 11, 2019

Sounds great, every bit as good as anything else in the charts. Btw, the copyright text says "BIg Town" (capital i), looks like BLG.

dee · Nov 11, 2019

dig bick said:
1000 plays equals pennies on Spotify isn't it? Get picked up for use on an Ad and you get £20k. Isn't giving content away the new way to make money

That's the experiment. It can actually be pretty lucrative dependant on who owns the rights. Most complaints traditionally come from bands whos rights deals are with labels, so they get a cut from the labels not spotify. and they got shafted on the digital deals. That's all changing these days.

dee · Nov 11, 2019

ian said:
Sounds great, every bit as good as anything else in the charts. Btw, the copyright text says "BIg Town" (capital i), looks like BLG.

good spot. Ta

dig bick · Nov 11, 2019

Had heard a few bands crying about the money they made on Spotify but didn't stop to think that they might just be talking about what the record company hands them after their share.

That guy that wrote The Martian gave it away free for years until it finally landed on some Hollywood producers desk and got optioned year after year for $50k a year then finally became a movie. He's minted from his free book now!

dee · Nov 11, 2019

dig bick said:
Had heard a few bands crying about the money they made on Spotify but didn't stop to think that they might just be talking about what the record company hands them after their share.

That guy that wrote The Martian gave it away free for years until it finally landed on some Hollywood producers desk and got optioned year after year for $50k a year then finally became a movie. He's minted from his free book now!

Yep. Traditional record company deals have been awful on the digital rights sides. Its got much better recently. Spotify pays out about 70% of all income to rights holders, basically divided by stream counts. It can add up pretty quickly if you get on the right playlists. For instance to take a random Luke Bryan track that's had so far 154 million streams on Spotify alone. That would translate to rights payments of over a million bucks just from plays. You then have same again roughly in ASCAP/PRS payments to collect if your songwriter/music rights holder also. Thats just on one streaming service.

Obviously highly doubtful itll get 154 million streams lol.

dig bick · Nov 11, 2019

Woah - Sounds amazing (got a password on Bugmenot). Really professionally produced! That you singing?

dee · Nov 11, 2019

dig bick said:
Woah - Sounds amazing (got a password on Bugmenot). Really professionally produced! That you singing?

Thanks. Not me singing. Nashville gun for hire. I do the production side of things

Murray · Nov 11, 2019

Sounds very good production wise and singer has a good voice

The song is pleasant but pretty generic, modern coldplay-ish in that regard

Need a better hook to make people want to listen again

Pleasant album filler but not a hit single

dee · Nov 11, 2019

Murray said:
Sounds very good production wise and singer has a good voice

The song is pleasant but pretty generic, modern coldplay-ish in that regard

Need a better hook to make people want to listen again

Pleasant album filler but not a hit single

Cheers for taking the time.

ian · Nov 11, 2019

Murray has a decent set of lungs on him, get him to sing your next hit

Murray · Nov 11, 2019

ian said:
Murray has a decent set of lungs on him, get him to sing your next hit

I'm not the best singer but I like writing songs as a hobby

here is one

https://soundcloud.com/user-416844003/fouryears

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