Spotify deals (or not)/earnings

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Spotify deals (or not)/earnings

Post by grossappetite » Tue Dec 01, 2009 5:12 pm

Howdy. new here. Dubstep ... and Spotify addict. After having noticed Hyperdub / Tectonic / Earwax catalogues were all removed recently from Spotify, I started to wonder what's going on. And I tried to do my homework (well, reading everything related spotify on the web for a start) to get the picture...and I still have many holes in the picture :mrgreen: .

as there are many entries on spotify blog where we can read "aggregator didn't have the rights" etc so we removed as soon as we know yadda yadda" I feel like the general scheme is : aggregators send everything they have, usually without telling the label(s) they signed with (something like "eh you were ok for boomkat, I thought you were ok for spotify" ? :oops: ) Then the label hears about it and decide to let it go...or not.
If you're in the "No way" category, feel free to share your reasons/vision, I'm all ears :wink: (and I'm not young enough anymore to claim everything has to be free, don't worry :lol: )

Now the money part for those who're onboard :r:
As Spotify completely refuses to discuss/disclose deals with any aggregator/label/artist, we have to rely on the other side to get info.
So far I see quite serious contradictions between what few artists shared as info and what was previously known/what aggregators disclose.
one member here (Alien Pimp) told us in another Spotify thread he got...4 cents for 160 plays... meaning hardly 0.03 cent per play.
I read something similar about some finnish metal band whose name I forgot :oops:
On the other hand, there were mentions of 0.1 cent per play previously on various articles , AND more surprisingly, i also read this from some french aggregator
http://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuse ... =516195913
we anticipate the royalty rates to be 1-2 Euro cents per ‘subscriber stream’ and 0.1 Euro cents per ‘free stream’.
not that I especially love the use of "anticipate" here ... so is this all a lie and the best indie artists will ever get from spotify is 0.03 cent per track played ?

If you have tracks on spotify and can share some info about distribution, earnings & so on, plz share it too :t:

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