As a musician, it's often better for me to share my music on free and non-pay or login walled services like Soundcloud and Audiomack than on Spotify... Yeah, I'

As a musician, it's often better for me to share my music on free and non-pay or login walled services like Soundcloud and Audiomack than on Spotify... Yeah, I'm on Spotify, but invested all of last year trying to promote there and gained little traction, whereas my music stats on Audiomack and Soundcloud make leaps and bounds over my Spotify stats. In all honesty, I make a really good rate for Spotify streams and it wouldn't surprise me if that's exactly why I don't get a lot of streams on there despite conducting plentily of promotional work. People pay for subscriptions on Spotify, Spotify also sells ad space which is profit. All artists never make a full penny per stream like we did on Mp3.com 20 YEARS AGO... It's insanity pretty much. I stopped promoting the services that don't work and only promote the ones that do, and I constantly monitor them each for positive and negative policy changes regularly. I never deleted my mp3 library, and I only buy phones that allow micro SD storage, because I'll be damned if I let a algorithm with an agenda to pick my music for me if I can help it.