When I do get a payout, I deposit it into a saving account and try to forget said money even exists. Also worth a mention the interest on this saving account is 4%. Right now my account balance is $10.02, again I’ve been depositing payout money since 2010 and with interest I still have less twenty bucks. This year Spotify changed their royalties payouts to only happen if a songs breaks 1000 streams. You can see why #BandcampFriday matters when artist get to get 100% of their profit. 📻🌹💜🎶
To give people an idea of how fucked royalty payouts are and why #fairtrademusicfriday aka #BandcampFriday is important to indie artists, please allow me to share my personal experience. First and foremost I’m not a ghost producer or commercial producer of anything popular, please keep this in mind. Since 2010 I’ve independently released music under various projects/alias/collabs, point and case my name is on something, when it streams or sells I see a royalty payment.…
Here's the weekly #OPM digest ! A one-stop guide to #music selections from 8 Fediverse #Musicians . It's a great place to get some #BandcampFriday selections, or maybe find a new favorite artist.
As always, you can find a permanent archive of these, with slightly longer writeups, at my blog. The permalink for this week's is here:
Man I got sucked into my current work project... I didn't even have time to listen to any music and not keeping up my #FletchsFridayReleases tradition makes me feel like I am letting down @HailsandAles 😮💨
For #BandcampFriday, may I suggest a listen and maybe cheap purchase of my new album? Alternatively, my entire discography can be had for a little over eight bucks. 🙂
As always, submit your own release or someone else's, it can be by #FediMusicians or not, hosted on #Bandcamp, #Faircamp, #JamCoop, #Mirlo or #SelfHosted, as long as it is by an #IndieArtist (but bonus points for supporting Bandcampers today, as it's the last one for a while).
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@axwax I have a recent release! This track is for clarinet, flute, and MIDI keyboard w/ Max/MSP. There are strange woodwind noises and multiphonics, ham radio samples & retro electric piano, among other things, and it sounds glitchy and trippy. It's on a compilation w/ 11 other composers, and that's great to check out as well!