One of the new things in music marketing is getting your song placed on a playlist for people who are not your current listeners to discover you. This organic method of promotion helps artists by reaching into new corners of the internet and bringing the music to the audience. So to do our part, we are beginning to build our very own Spotify playlists and will embed them in articles from time to time. Please go have a listen while you check out our articles. Then, if you like the bands, please subscribe to the playlists. We will update them with new tracks occasionally and build new focused playlists down the line.
As is always, these are artists we dearly love and support. So please consider visiting their band camps and buying directly from these musicians. Then, add their tours to your calendar and go see them live. Give them a high five from me. As this method of promotion is not some get rich scheme:
Spotify pays artists through their distributor (usually a record label) based on a pro-rata share of total monthly streams, with payments typically ranging from $0.003 to $0.005 per stream, and there is a 1,000 stream minimum to generate royalties.
Which is to say, if you put a 3-minute song on repeat, then you would earn that musician $1.02 every 50 hours or a grand total of $14.40 every month if you only listened to that one 3-minute song on repeat for the entire month.
So please, for that $11.99 a month Spotify membership, consider buying a cd or vinyl or t-shirt even, directly from an artist you know and love. But in the meantime, lets see if we can’t get these playlists to the masses to spread the good word about working musicians out there living in imagination land.
Broken Prism Studios 