Spotify

[crowbgood1]

Does anyone have their music on Spotify or one of the other streaming providers?

[StratMatt]

I primarily use Spotify for music. Me and the missus share a premium account so you get to save anything you like for offline listening. The only pita is when we both want to listen from different locations, will only let one at a time play.

[crowbgood1]

Yes I do too. I was really wanting to know if anyone had their own music up on it for public consumption.

[moliere]

Yep, I've got our latest album up there. I don't use it myself, but a lot of people I know do.

[sopachrga]

Our new single is there. We'll be submitting the new ones shortly.

Ours is on Amazon, Google, itunes, rdio, spotify, last fm, pandora etc etc etc

[otisredding]

Only the stuff I don't own (ie. the record company owns it and did the deal). I would never go the streaming method myself. Don't see how the so-called long-tail method would ever make up for the loss in sales via downloads especially for fringe/specialist genres. I can sell 1000 CDs or downloads to make $20,000 of production/marketing costs back per album or I can pop it on the streaming services, lose 80-90% of my dl/CD sales in the process and hope to get the well over 2 million streams to do the same kind of $ turnover..... doesn't add up for me anyway.

[moliere]

it depends on what you want out of it. Financial? Waste of time/money.
The only reason I put our stuff up for streaming is because that is the way that some of our fans consume their music. But we do a sub genre of a sub genre, purely for the love of it, and because there's some people out there that enjoy it. It's all pretty much DIY and we don't expect any financial return on it. Completely different for someone that's a career musician of course.

[crowbgood1]

The two sides of the coin. Thanks guys.

Oh and Otis. I'll be getting the CD when you release. Any T-shirts for this one?

[jeremyb]

The streaming services are a terrible deal for bands, I won't support on principle, much prefer buying off an artists bandcamp or similar

[WellyBlues]

Just a listeners perspective here: I listen to Spotify a bit. I find it really good for checking out new-to-me artists who I've read about. A great example is Jerry Douglas, the Dobro player with Alison Krauss + Union Station and solo. As a result of listening to his albums on Spotify I bought one in jb hi-fi the other week. Listening to Alison Krauss on Spotify now actually. I'll definitely buy other Jerry Douglas albums.

On the other hand, I'm a huge John Mellencamp fan, particularly his recent work and own a fair bit of it. But his most recent album, Plain Spoken, I checked out on Spotify and first listen didn't grab me. I'll go back to it and see if another listen feels different but at this stage I doubt I'll buy it. Spend the money on another artist. The forum's Darcy Perry has a lot of albums on Spotify now and having listened to them I'll be buying some (already own a couple).

There have been a few artists I've got into via Spotify and bought albums so my view is that it's probably a good thing for artists, it's promotion that they don't get via radio (does anyone listen to music radio these days? in NZ anyway). Just don't expect to make a living from the royalties. But if you're not getting played on the radio or TV then you're not getting your music out there as much as you could.

Looking forward to receiving my PledgeMe album Darren. Must be soon.

[calling card]

What if I said I opened an account there but fucked if I can remember my password and have never entered since.

[WellyBlues]

What if I said I opened an account there but fucked if I can remember my password and have never entered since.

Use the 'recover password' tool, use Faceache signin, or create a new free account? I find their password thingy a pain, even for a free account, but then it's something I'll tolerate because I want the music. Just listening to John Mellencamp live album "performs Trouble No More live at the Town Hall" which I like. Still don't like the new "Plain Spoken" album after another listen.

Spotify has turned me onto more new artists than I probably realise. Makes my day better.

[Vince]

Just a listeners perspective here: I listen to Spotify a bit. I find it really good for checking out new-to-me artists who I've read about. A great example is Jerry Douglas, the Dobro player with Alison Krauss + Union Station and solo. As a result of listening to his albums on Spotify I bought one in jb hi-fi the other week. Listening to Alison Krauss on Spotify now actually. I'll definitely buy other Jerry Douglas albums.

Speaking of Jerry Douglas. I have this one, which is a pretty good intro to all sorts of dobro players.

http://www.amazon.com/Great-Dobro-Sessi ... B000000EYC

[otisredding]

Looking forward to receiving my PledgeMe album Darren. Must be soon.

Just waiting on the manufacturer now, mate. You'll have it days after we get 'em.