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What I find most interesting is someone with 1.3m Twitter followers is having so little of her music streamed, I assume that this is because the majority of her

What I find most interesting is someone with 1.3m Twitter followers is having so little of her music streamed, I assume that this is because the majority of her fans purchase her music? I notice she has a Bandcamp account. I think it would be great to see her Bandcamp sales figures too as a point of reference, and ideally an explanation of how being available on Spotify / Pandora affected her sales figures. She's also posted some more stats here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AkasqHkVRM1OdEJFUnhyNFFkZjVSUWxhWGl1dE9lQXc#gid=6 https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AkasqHkVRM1OdEJ...

stephengillie 14y ago
How many of those followers aren't fans, but: 1. bots 2. People who want to set up a business deal (everyone from major label agents to real estate agents) 3. Random people that follow others in the hopes of gaining more followers
beatpanda 14y ago
Her Bandcamp sales figures are in the spreadsheet.
- citricsquid 14y ago
  oh, the spreadsheet has changed since posted. Thanks!
  - jamesbritt 14y ago
    Also, there are tabs at the bottom to view different pages of the spreadsheet. (Sorry if I'm saying something obvious; I didn't catch it at first myself.)
protomyth 14y ago
Maybe people who listen to her are more into CDs and buying from iTunes / Amazon?
- bigiain 14y ago
  FWIW, I've got both her albums and her EP on CD, one of those albums on vinyl as well, and an iTunes copy of the other album (since the CD didn't arrive quickly enough). I also buy concert tickets at every opportunity: http://www.flickr.com/photos/bigiain/7325677270/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/bigiain/7325677270/ I'm a bit of a fan… If you've not heard her music (or want to hear more) there's a free (legal) download here: http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/soundquality/sqy-16/4012556 http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/soundquality/sq... She's a bit of a geek/hacker too - she runs a laptop with Ableton Live, sooperlooper, and a bunch of custom applescripts (which don't always play nice when the laptop sleeps, she sometimes needs to reboot on stage), and she was talking about building some custom microcontroller hardware to give her easier/different control compared to the midi footpedal she's using.
bigiain 14y ago
$80,000 (net after fees) of downloads/physical sales in six months (without label support, which is pretty impressive to me) - that's presumably something like $120K gross sales (before iTunes/Amazon's 30% cut and credit card fees). If you attribute _all_ of that to twitter (big assumption!), then it values her twitter followers at ~$0.18/year. I wonder how many twitterers beat that?

stephengillie 14y ago

How many of those followers aren't fans, but: 1. bots 2. People who want to set up a business deal (everyone from major label agents to real estate agents) 3. Random people that follow others in the hopes of gaining more followers

beatpanda 14y ago

Her Bandcamp sales figures are in the spreadsheet.

citricsquid 14y ago
oh, the spreadsheet has changed since posted. Thanks!
- jamesbritt 14y ago
  Also, there are tabs at the bottom to view different pages of the spreadsheet. (Sorry if I'm saying something obvious; I didn't catch it at first myself.)

protomyth 14y ago

Maybe people who listen to her are more into CDs and buying from iTunes / Amazon?

bigiain 14y ago
FWIW, I've got both her albums and her EP on CD, one of those albums on vinyl as well, and an iTunes copy of the other album (since the CD didn't arrive quickly enough). I also buy concert tickets at every opportunity: http://www.flickr.com/photos/bigiain/7325677270/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/bigiain/7325677270/ I'm a bit of a fan… If you've not heard her music (or want to hear more) there's a free (legal) download here: http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/soundquality/sqy-16/4012556 http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/soundquality/sq... She's a bit of a geek/hacker too - she runs a laptop with Ableton Live, sooperlooper, and a bunch of custom applescripts (which don't always play nice when the laptop sleeps, she sometimes needs to reboot on stage), and she was talking about building some custom microcontroller hardware to give her easier/different control compared to the midi footpedal she's using.

bigiain 14y ago

$80,000 (net after fees) of downloads/physical sales in six months (without label support, which is pretty impressive to me) - that's presumably something like $120K gross sales (before iTunes/Amazon's 30% cut and credit card fees). If you attribute _all_ of that to twitter (big assumption!), then it values her twitter followers at ~$0.18/year. I wonder how many twitterers beat that?