People say this all the time about Spotify, but it's actually a viable outlet for revenue if you're on a decent label who understands how to leverage playlists.
Obv that doesn't apply for freeform... but for styles like trance, techno, DnB etc it's not unheard of for a track to get 500k streams across a variety of playlists, which equates to $1500.
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I don't think it would be wise to dox myself here after I've made an unpopular comment!
I agree. I think people have taken my comment as a defence of the geoblocking, was just offering an example of why someone like a small indie musician may choose to do that. I do find it frustrating when I have to VPN to a different country to watch a video.
But the reason I geoblock one country isn't to be an arsehole, it's because Russia has no recourse for indie musicians like myself who have their music stolen. They have no law preventing music theft which is why it's rampant in that one territory (not saying it doesn't ever happen elsewhere). Pretty much the entire rest of the world has some sort of avenue where I can issue something like a dmca.
Hard to say really. I'm fairly sure if it was available online for free, less people would have bought it.
When you're talking only £2000 or so of sales for a small indie release, piracy makes a huge hit to sales. My more popular stuff like trance, the sales drop off a cliff the moment it's leaked. There was a huge problem with people on promo lists leaking pre-released tracks to warez sites, not sure if the main labels (eg ones like Armada, Anjuna etc) ever got to the bottom of it, but it really hurt the sales of people who aren't exactly making bank from their music
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Exactly. I had a 12 track album up for £9, or single tracks for 99p, don't think that's unreasonable!
Pirating from massive companies who exploit their workers and customers is different from pirating small indie artists, surely?
He even looks like a cartoon. His moustache looks like it's made of sausages
I love your username, it made me giggle
That is deeply ironic!
Once you try stretch denim, as a guy it's hard to go back to normal denim. Feels like a cage around my crotch.
What an absolute legend!