Tips for streaming on Spotify to receive your Royalties

BossBaby said:

which distributor do you prefer to start with I am thinking of getting into Spotify streaming

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Beautiful7 said:

I personally based on exp wouldnt recommend Tunecore and Distrokid

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Angel360 said:

In our case we do not work with mass market distributors, We have direct deals with spotify,

But we leave releases on absolutely all distributors to measure the market, if Distrokid have sunk in the theft of royalties without any shame, Tunecore is they spot not as easily as Distrokid especially if you fly really low, to the point of almost not being truly profitable

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Angel360 said:

Three rookie mistakes to avoid:

1) Getting into the top charts.

(Depending on the country you stream from, there's a limit to how many streams you can get per day per track, if you get into the top charts, it's a safe bet that you'll get deleted)
It sounds stupid, but it's very easy to get into the Spotify TOP 200, especially if you live in a small country)

2) Have too few artists.

(Deliver several artists, in case some of them get deleted you won't lose everything)

3) Distribute with Distrokid

There was a time, when Distrokid paid the artists playing with the system, even if it was transfers of 5,6,7k$ automatically.
As long as you didn't get caught by Spotify you were sure to get paid. This change the last year.
They decided to keep the money for themselves, even though they had no hard evidence, a profile that was just a little suspicious was reason enough.

I know it's tempting to deal with them, since they are the cheapest, but you can be pretty sure, that if you want to make big money you will get nothing.

We have a few years in this business, if you have any questions we will try to answer them with as much detail as possible.

If the question might embarrass us, because you never know who from the Spotify technical team might be reading this, then we'll answer you via private message.

Angel Team

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Angel360 said:

Three rookie mistakes to avoid:

1) Getting into the top charts.

(Depending on the country you stream from, there's a limit to how many streams you can get per day per track, if you get into the top charts, it's a safe bet that you'll get deleted)
It sounds stupid, but it's very easy to get into the Spotify TOP 200, especially if you live in a small country)

2) Have too few artists.

(Deliver several artists, in case some of them get deleted you won't lose everything)

3) Distribute with Distrokid

There was a time, when Distrokid paid the artists playing with the system, even if it was transfers of 5,6,7k$ automatically.
As long as you didn't get caught by Spotify you were sure to get paid. This change the last year.
They decided to keep the money for themselves, even though they had no hard evidence, a profile that was just a little suspicious was reason enough.

I know it's tempting to deal with them, since they are the cheapest, but you can be pretty sure, that if you want to make big money you will get nothing.

We have a few years in this business, if you have any questions we will try to answer them with as much detail as possible.

If the question might embarrass us, because you never know who from the Spotify technical team might be reading this, then we'll answer you via private message.

Angel Team

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Angel360 said:

Three rookie mistakes to avoid:

1) Getting into the top charts.

(Depending on the country you stream from, there's a limit to how many streams you can get per day per track, if you get into the top charts, it's a safe bet that you'll get deleted)
It sounds stupid, but it's very easy to get into the Spotify TOP 200, especially if you live in a small country)

2) Have too few artists.

(Deliver several artists, in case some of them get deleted you won't lose everything)

3) Distribute with Distrokid

There was a time, when Distrokid paid the artists playing with the system, even if it was transfers of 5,6,7k$ automatically.
As long as you didn't get caught by Spotify you were sure to get paid. This change the last year.
They decided to keep the money for themselves, even though they had no hard evidence, a profile that was just a little suspicious was reason enough.

I know it's tempting to deal with them, since they are the cheapest, but you can be pretty sure, that if you want to make big money you will get nothing.

We have a few years in this business, if you have any questions we will try to answer them with as much detail as possible.

If the question might embarrass us, because you never know who from the Spotify technical team might be reading this, then we'll answer you via private message.

Angel Team

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Angel360 said:

Tunecore or Cd Baby
If you don't plan to make a lot of streams and money in the beginning
(Fast payment)
(Easy distribution)
(Simple track acceptance rate)

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xLucky7 said:

Kinda old thread but ill ask anyway...
1. Would a producer releasing instrumentals (possibly a collection of 10 at a time as an album) getting passable streams work to receive payouts? Would you still recommend staying out of the top 200, or even less streams per day/week?
2. As someone who actually plans to do music as a living would you recommend streaming such as this?

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Angel360 said:

If you don't plan to make a lot of streams and money in the beginning

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thegcfrolamide said:

What is a moderate amount of money and streams for a new artist ??

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Angel360 said:

You should know that only 3% of artists on Spotify generate more than $1,000 a year. When I see young entrepreneurs making 10, 20 times that amount on a single artist, I'm not saying it's not possible, I'm just saying it's stupid to believe that this is a good long-term strategy.

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