<story><title>Spotify demonetizes all tracks under 1k streams</title><url>https://djmag.com/news/spotify-officially-demonetises-all-tracks-under-1000-streams</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>atoav</author><text>I am in a small and new band. In 2023 we earned roughly&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;     500 Euros via Bandcamp (digital, physical and merch)
     300 Euros selling merch on gigs
    2000 Euros playing gigs
      20 Cents on Spotify
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There is no monetary reason to be on spotify, the only reason we are on there is because fans asked.</text></item><item><author>snailmailman</author><text>I don’t know much about how music licensing works. But would this cause smaller musicians to decide to pull their stuff off Spotify?&lt;p&gt;I listen to a &lt;i&gt;lot&lt;/i&gt; of music on Spotify. And some of it is from smaller indie artists. Not a huge amount, but I’ve definitely listened to songs that are in that &amp;lt;1000 plays category, and for some undiscovered artists that’s a good amount of their library.&lt;p&gt;It surprises me how much of my Spotify library is no longer available. There’s at least a few dozen songs in my Spotify library that have been taken off the platform. It shows up in the list greyed out. A lot of good songs too.&lt;p&gt;As much as I love Spotify and music streaming, it seems like the economics of it fundamentally doesn’t work and can’t work.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>FireInsight</author><text>This is exactly the reason why my preferred method of music consumption is piracy + Bandcamp. Every Bandcamp Friday (when Bandcamp doesn&amp;#x27;t take a cut) I buy about 2 to 6 albums I&amp;#x27;ve listened to in the past month or a few. If an artist is not on Bandcamp, I&amp;#x27;m less likely to listen to them, but if I do, I eventually pirate their stuff.&lt;p&gt;All the music I buy and pirate is in FLAC and funneled into my local library, where I can enjoy it without any streaming service taking it away from me.&lt;p&gt;And I usually end up contributing more to my favorite artists financials than fans who use streaming service, so that&amp;#x27;s a bonus.</text></comment>
<story><title>Spotify demonetizes all tracks under 1k streams</title><url>https://djmag.com/news/spotify-officially-demonetises-all-tracks-under-1000-streams</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>atoav</author><text>I am in a small and new band. In 2023 we earned roughly&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;     500 Euros via Bandcamp (digital, physical and merch)
     300 Euros selling merch on gigs
    2000 Euros playing gigs
      20 Cents on Spotify
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
There is no monetary reason to be on spotify, the only reason we are on there is because fans asked.</text></item><item><author>snailmailman</author><text>I don’t know much about how music licensing works. But would this cause smaller musicians to decide to pull their stuff off Spotify?&lt;p&gt;I listen to a &lt;i&gt;lot&lt;/i&gt; of music on Spotify. And some of it is from smaller indie artists. Not a huge amount, but I’ve definitely listened to songs that are in that &amp;lt;1000 plays category, and for some undiscovered artists that’s a good amount of their library.&lt;p&gt;It surprises me how much of my Spotify library is no longer available. There’s at least a few dozen songs in my Spotify library that have been taken off the platform. It shows up in the list greyed out. A lot of good songs too.&lt;p&gt;As much as I love Spotify and music streaming, it seems like the economics of it fundamentally doesn’t work and can’t work.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>whstl</author><text>Similar experiences (but from a few years ago).&lt;p&gt;Even people who have Spotify end up buying stuff in Bandcamp, anyway. I never had merch but had CDs, and sometimes people would buy two physical copies, one to gift.&lt;p&gt;For me there was never any difference between Spotify and piracy.</text></comment>