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Eh, when I started playing and recording with my first serious band some 20 years ago, our physical EP that sold around 1000 copies made considerably more than
by TrackerFF 6y ago
Eh, when I started playing and recording with my first serious band some 20 years ago, our physical EP that sold around 1000 copies made considerably more than spotify would give us today, for 1000 listens.
Of course, Spotify (and the likes) would give us much, MUCH more exposure to listeners all over the world - but buck for buck, it's a worse deal on the scale a lot of amateurs are operating.
The best way to support smaller acts is:
1. Go to their shows.
2. Buy their physical or digital copies.
3. Buy their merch, if there's any.
4. Donate.
Digital streaming services will pay them pennies. So one needs to actively support artists.
- satyrnein 6y agoYou can't really compare 1000 sales to 1000 streams. Each individual sale would (hopefully) have resulted in many streams over its lifetime.
- npteljes 6y agoAlso many of the streams wouldn't have translated to sales. If it wasn't for the algorithm to pick the tracks as background music when the user was doing whatever else, the song wouldn't have been played at all. Similar how pirated game downloads wouldn't translate to sales - often the game wouldn't have been bought at all, and the person would have just done something else with their time.