I Released My First Song On Spotify + Popular Musician Removes Songs From Streaming Platforms
What should I make of it? And why did ANATII remove music from streaming services?
On the fourth of June I released my first song on Spotify. After seven days, the song had nine streams. Currently, I don't know what to do.
What I know though is that I must put more songs on Spotify but the songs better be good, meaning I have to spend more time on them. This means I have to know how many songs I want to release each year… or maybe I should know how many albums I should put out each year. Thinking of it: one shouldn't release more than one album per year. You can even go as far as maybe one album in two to three years. Does that mean one should stop making music? I doubt. Look, there are performances, tours and all that shit… there's making videos for your song … and perhaps taking time to admire your own art.
This then means one should work on one song per month. Or am I getting it wrong? Tell me what you think…
Popular Musician Removes Songs From Streaming Platforms
South African musician ANATII removed his music from streaming services. What to make of it? Of course this spells doom for unknown artists like us: if a popular musician removes his music from streaming platforms, why should we keep ours?
Of course, ANATII didn't reveal much, revealing the news in a tweet. But of course we know the industrywide gripe against streaming services: they pay little. Popular musicians talk about exploitation.
I'm reminded of this big label executive saying that they only put one song from their artists' albums. They don't put the entire album on the streaming platforms.
I guess musicians like ANATII want people to buy their music, not stream it. I guess their thinking is: if you love my music, you'll buy it.
Anyway, I must remember the reasons why I put my first song on Spotify: I did it so I could gain an artist's profile on Spotify. The plan was never a million streams in the first week of release.
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