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You can imagine my astonishment when someone I know, a deejay and producer, came to me several months ago, at a club, with the very unexpected answer of 'how to
by larodi 6y ago
You can imagine my astonishment when someone I know, a deejay and producer, came to me several months ago, at a club, with the very unexpected answer of 'how to run more Ubuntus on one box' ?!
Because... he wanted to have them subscribe and then click and play a list of alter-ego-monikers of himself, who release to unknown probably ghost-audience in Spotify
Making money in the way - without releases, without gigs.
And it is exactly 600-800$ per month he cited as the amount he made from one alter ego with several albums.
Somehow I'm sure there are others out there doing the same.
I'm leaving for folks here to imagine and comment how relevant would soon Spotify be for indie artists that will be competing with such Spotify click-botnets...
- saaaaaam 6y agoBots have been an issue on Spotify for years. Spotify is pretty good at sorting them and removing fake streams.