<story><title>Why Spotify Pays So Little</title><url>http://lit.vulf.de/spotify-so-little/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kfor</author><text>Vulfpeck is also the band behind Sleepify[1], the album of ten silent 30s songs which fans looped on Spotify while they slept. Vulfpeck earned $20k as a result and used it to organize a tour.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleepify&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Sleepify&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mod</author><text>Wouldn&amp;#x27;t you have had to (if a free user) listen to commercials during this? Wouldn&amp;#x27;t that sort-of defeat the purpose of the silence?&lt;p&gt;May as well ask people to play some more normal 30s songs and turn off their speakers, avoid being delisted as a non-album.</text></comment>
<story><title>Why Spotify Pays So Little</title><url>http://lit.vulf.de/spotify-so-little/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kfor</author><text>Vulfpeck is also the band behind Sleepify[1], the album of ten silent 30s songs which fans looped on Spotify while they slept. Vulfpeck earned $20k as a result and used it to organize a tour.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleepify&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Sleepify&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sahara</author><text>Vulfpeck is &lt;i&gt;also&lt;/i&gt; also the band behind four really terrific EPs in as many years, and you should absolutely give them a listen[1], although ideally not on Spotify.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;http://vulf.bandcamp.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;vulf.bandcamp.com&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>