How much Spotify paid me for 1.5 million streams (And how)
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- čas přidán 25. 06. 2024
- In this video I will be showing you exactly how much Spotify paid me for nearly 2 million streams. I will also give you a few tips and tricks on how to blow up on Spotify with real life examples on how I did it.
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Tips and tricks are at the beginning but If you are only here for the exact number it's at 7:38 lol
What a legend
Legend
I skipped, then went back to the beginning🙂
Keep up the great music 🔥
They need to pay artist more
Him at 2:31: "I'm just a regular human, like you."
Me looking down at his sweater: "..."
@MKD You make a solid point.
*sweating intensifies*
🤣
“I am a table”🤣
LMAOO
Glad I’ve contributed a cent or two to you, man! Keep making music!
Much love I appreciate you!
You’d have to stream him 315 times in order to give him one cent😂😂 that blows my mind
Could you please give me a cent or two as well?
Ordinary Kyle
Unpopular opinion :- Bring like 1000 cheap phones and download Spotify and play your song on repeat for the whole month ( you can try a higher price per play streaming service like tidal )
Matt Smith its sad
this song flops, this beat flops, this video flops - just keep going.
love that.
I get what ur trying to say but isn’t a flop mean like, fail?
@@Internet_Rex yeah lol
IG: _Calender Yeah he’s saying that even if your songs, beats, or videos flop (fail) initially, you should continue to put yourself out there and eventually you will make it.
Isn't flop bad
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You're such a humble dude and many blessings will come your way for sharing your knowledge and insight.
Bless you, L. Dre - you're a legend already.
6:40 is why you are here
king
hamundpom hehehe✌️
God send
not all heroes wear cape
Nah, don't sleep on all the other information. Video is only 10 minutes long.
Spotify also pays based on location of listeners, Plays coming from US, Australia and some European Countries pay more than plays coming from Brazil, the middle East or Asia.
interesting, do you know if youtube does the same? i always see these brazilian funk songs getting like 50-100 million views but pretty much noone knows about them internationally
jekkt definitely Brazil would pay less for CZcams especially for monetisation. Plays in the US, UK and Australia would pay more. It’s the same reason why it cost less to advertise in Brazil compared to the US.
@@jekkt that's because Brazil alone has a population of over 200 million people and Brazilian funk is the most popular genre in that country. Plus, a lot of people in Latin America enjoy Brazilian Funk.
There's a channel called Kondzilla, owned by a man who manages Funk singers. If I'm not wrong, it's one of the top ten most popular channels in the world (although I believe 95% or more of their subscribers are Latin American).
True, sucks to be a south east asian
Just like CZcams right?
Came here to just see how much you made. Stayed and listened for how you made it. I can't thank you enough! I've never submitted songs to Spotify playlist cause I personally don't use them but in a couple minutes you showed me how important it really is and now I'm going to make it a regular habit! Thank You!
I see you as someone who could really blow up. What you have that a lot of youtube producers don't is that you have a big following on a lot of social and streaming platforms. Not just one. And your content is so good. congrats on 100k.
Congrats my guy for reaching 100k subs I knew you'd reach 100k this year. I'm a subscriber since 10k listening to fire beats now it's hotter since then.🙌🙌🙌
Yo that’s lit thank you !
congrats on the success bro! its good to hear that hard works pays off. thank you for the game
So happy for you! I've been listening to your Chill beats album for almost 5 months now. One of my favorites 💖
You know, when I first subbed to you months ago, you were at something like 50k (maybe even 25k? who knows) and you felt super down-to-earth. now, it's hitting me that you have over 100k subscribers and that shocks me because you don't act like a youtuber on their way to a quarter million, half million, etc. you still seem so chill and yet still talented.
I'm gonna be glad when I get to say I watched you before you blew up. best of luck in the music industry, thanks for helping out us smaller producers, and stay chill.
Watching you come up to where you are has been really cool. Makes me what to get back to producing
Can’t wait for the day when these streaming services actually pay artists not low ball the hell out of them
Sorry for telling you, but that won't probably ever happen. If I'm not mistaken, the last quarter of 2019 was the first since Spotify hit the market where they did not make a lo$$. Their whole business concept is not working that well...
mekkanic uhhh they just bought Joe Rogan Podcast for over $100 million so yeah I would say they are doing pretty good, if they have that much money to buy podcast then they have money to pay their artist and songwriters better
they have investors, they are investing in podcasts for the long term trying to beat apple. i pay 8 or 9 bucks a month for spotify and i stream probaby 3000-4000 songs a month (including repeats). thats about .003 cents i pay for each stream. now also realize they have massive overhead. office rent, employees, insurance, etc. there isnt much room for artists to get paid much more. back in the day when cds existed it was much easier to pay artists alot more. one cd sold 1 million copies each cd youll make 10 bucks per cd. thats 10 mil for 1 album, even if they sell only 10,000 cds thats still 100k. but things change. people dont want to spend hundreds of dollars on music. learn to adapt and make money via other avenues, brand parterships, launching a product, merch, make a course on music, sell your music online, etc.
fer real tho! and many are MORE talented than the BIG INDUSTRY push!
The music industry has always been evil
great video; the one key thing that stands out as most important in my eyes is 'the song has to be good' - that's pretty much key; if you don't have good content, people will catch on eventually lol; thanks for the advice on where to submit and about brand-building as well. Keep up the good work!
either L.Dre is sick or someone's sleeping in the studio cause you def sound a lot quieter this episode... either thanks for the info!! this is gonna really help a lot of musicians/producers singers etc! Congrats 100k homie
- SweetScale TV - yooooooo my girlfriend was sleeping 🤣🤣🤣
Say it wit ya chest
i love how he always talks like his mom is sleeping in the next room
Bruh
@@paradoxikalparalysis 😂😂
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Lol
Lmao
Awesome video bro! I can tell you deserve everything you’ve earned. Encouraging !
Massive respect for sharing your info honestly...you've gained another sub bro!! ❤️
I have your music on for whole days sometimes while I'm working. Appreciate the motivation to keep making music too. ✌🏼
💯🔥
Great video. Appreciate the transparency.
🙏🏾🙏🏾
@L.Dre congrats big bro 🔥
Amazing video L.Dre! Always so much value!
More success to you Dre. I love how you're interested in being a bridge of advice for someone to get across. Everything you said was on point big brother 💪🏾
Bro???? We need to get this man more money smh
Or become inspired and focus on getting your own money
@@bdmora8208 and we can also support this man for making good music. You can do both, you know?
im sure he also gets his money from itunes and other services from the same song lol
Thank you bro. I needed this today.
Most EXCELLENT information!!!! Congratulations on your current success and much continued success!!👊🏾🎶
That's one thing I am grateful of with Distrokid as long as you have streams from Spotify you will get paid for those streams. It may not be a lot. But you actually create a residual income. With the little I made I was able to get a better mic, better audio interface, portable midi controller, sound proof panels, lights, and some amazing headphones to hear multiple frequencies with. I plan to get really good monitor speakers next. I get to my growth with my music as well as my fans. Building brick by brick. We grow together HOORAH! Thanks for this video homie it was very insightful.
Bruh It doesn't matter how much you make u still gat to be greatfull 🙏🙏
@@wildstuffvicky9528 I totally agree because any income to help your growth is better than $0. 👍🏾💯
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Wow! Amazing information. Honestly brother huge info
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Great vid! Thank you for posting!
I appreciate your vibe, and content. Thanks for sharing all the helpful tips and info!
just like alot of things, it's a numbers game. Just gotta keep playing, keep it up bro. You deserve more
I just recently put music out on DistroKid too, definitely been a fun ride so far, like you said just having music on the hard drive ain't doing it any good. Put it out there and don't worry about the numbers, they will show up eventually. It's a marathon not a sprint.
DHumphrey_AMP did you affiliate with a PRO and sound exchange first or just Distrokid?
Needed to hear this
Thanks bro. Keep up the great work. Giving this type of knowledge out is a blessing.
This is such a fantastic video. I got more info from you in 20 seconds then most other people give in an hour. Thanks for the tips man 🔥🎧
Back in the 80's 1.5 million single sales would have made you a smash hit ... and wealthy.
Because people would buy physical CDs. music was kinda expensive back then, you had to pay for whole album
Now you pay a subscription and have access to millions of songs. Tbh i am not a fan of this model. I think we should buy albums for say
$1. Then steaming services can keep their 10-15% and rest can go to the artists.
Also . Fuck record labels.
@@rph_redacted
I bought singles back in the 80's as well as albums. And in the 90's CD singles were popular too. Singles were the judge of success. 1.5 million single sales would have made you successful.
Music Artists have always been ripped off, though the 70s & 80's was probably the golden era for music Artists.
From 87 onwards I worked as a sound engineer. It was considered a craft. It was also an incredibly prolific time musically. It really just isn't the same now, and sadly, Artist are now the most ripped off they've ever been. There is a solution, and it's coming soon 👍
@@ProjectOverseer what's the solution 🤔
1.5 million in sales would get you $150,000 per single. The key word is sales. Spotify is like radio plays, you use radio to promote your live concerts, where you can make the big money. Songwriters used to make 3 cents per radio play, it might be higher now.
@@ProjectOverseer The record companies used to own the master recordings, that is how they got rich. Ray Charles was able to get ownership rights to his recordings, but, that was rare. The Beatles don't even own their early recordings.
Thanks for the video man very inspiring and motivating for a fellow artist - SUBBED !
Thank you !!
Dope video bro. Needed to see this bro
This was super encouraging thanks bro
so far I’ve made $11 off all my music. Lmao. motivational video I appreciate the knowledge
Rafael Hrndz lol that’s $11 more than me
Lol thats one hell of a success story for me. How'd you do it?
I’m around the same income for my tracks too...Don’t give up Bro
Mee too lol no lie
More than my 4$
Best saying I've ever heard "if it was sitting on a hard drive it would be making nothing at all"
I appreciate you posting this video - thank you 👍😊
Good looking out on the info homie 💯💯💯
Well done video man! The only thing I have against DistroKid is that they force you to pay for the rest of your life and if you cancel they take down your music. And beyond that I just really hate subscriptions and would rather pay one time. But great video! Great quality. You're living the music producer's dream!
Thank you man! I feel that but I feel these days you really have to release a lot of music to succeed so $20 or $35 a year for an unlimited amount of songs is really worth it for me. By the time I may want to switch or for whatever reason I want to stop using Distrokid I could always use their "Leave a legacy feature" or just migrate to a different service.
@@LDreTheGiant Their Leave a Legacy feature only makes it so that once you die your music stays up. But I do see the value of unlimited releases.
*I'm just a regular human*
Wears *iam a table* hoodie
that cracked me up
Love your work do your thing!!!!!
lots of love!
thanks for the info brotha,good stuff
This was so informative! Thank you
Hope we all can make it as artist and producers
thank you and same
Yo this the dude who taught me how to make lofi on iOS nice!
Congrats for the 100k man. Keep rocking 🤟
Dope! Thanks for the info 💯
Net worth of Spotify CEO is $4.5 billion. He’s never written a song.
Paul McCartney’s net worth is $1.28 billion
You have done such amazing work with your music and marketing and this teaching tool for musicians is unprecedented!
That net worth has nothing to do with revenue.
Distrokid doesn’t take any of your profits UNLESS you live outside the USA, then up to 30% gone
unless tax treaty
really? i live in germany and didnt know that. how can i find out how much DistroKid takes?
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Thanks man! That was really helpful 💯%
You are such an inspiration dude. You have just gotten yourself a fan from Durban, South Africa. Keep up the amazing work.
just discovered u. I was curious to see the million stream royalties.. I have a song out on spotify with 80k and i got paid 150 for it. I feel like it is worth more than that though. Idk. this artist thing is difficult man lmao. Wish you the best of luck with everything, hope you keep hitting those millions
Yeah bro you would think ones you see a Kid on your songs you’ll start making big money haha but that’s why you just have to have multiple streams of income
@@LDreTheGiant I don't know I heard the artist or the person who actually created the song doesn't get much per download or stream. I heard something like a penny per stream or download.
DÈVE what you mean by put them as published by? Where would you change that
DÈVE lol signing up with distro kids etc is the wrong route if you want to do it the right way you have to make your own distro kid for yourself
Somehow when I was uploading to Spotify (and I was making trap) they added me to Lo-Fi Beats editorial playlist, only now im staring to realize how big of a deal that was and starting to focus on lofi beats lol I had no idea about them before..:))
Favorite thing that stood out when I came across the first video of you was it isn't misleading bs. Really appreciate that man.
Shout out to you L.Dre, man you keep it 100 and that is Gucci my brother. Keep doing what your doing.
Criminal how you get paid so little for millions of streams.
Its 1.5 M not milltions
You're sweet and humble, bro.
Thank you 🙏🏾
The advice before the main reason for this video is GOLD!!
Thanks for sharing man.
Thanks man your advices really helped me out🔥
Yea this is the game now!
Its like $250k for 100M streams! But u had good numbers back then. Two paths to make good money: 1) Put out tons of projects 2) Drop a couple real HIT records
So if you get really lucky, you can earn less than a bag boy at Walmart.
Your dumb af 4 thousand is a lot of money a month
@@summerbrown514 he said october - march, so thats like 6 months
@@summerbrown514 I hope this is a life lesson for you. Randomly calling people dumb while you are clearly the wrong one.
@@TheYaGaHa Talking shit in general ain't cool
Having 1.5 Million streams doesn't mean you're unemployed 😂
Hi! This video not only introduced me to your channel but also your music, keep up the good work! :)
Thank you and welcome 🙏🏾
Thanks for the information and you keep doing what you doing...YOU ON YOUR WAY!!!
6:40 is when he actually starts talking about his money from streams
Before the internet my old band used to make that much selling 100 tapes a year at shows
The incite in this video is more then satisfying, lot of food for thought. Earned another subscriber
Brother I appreciate the information. Upcoming artist and this is gold! Thanks my dude. Blessings 🙏🏽
4K isn’t a lot considering you had MILLIONS of streams. Streaming is daily light robbery for artists.
Performances make the most money
to many people are making to much music pushing the price and quality down, i pay musicians to play on my music. 40,000 tracks a day uploaded to spotify you be lucky to get heard at all.
Bringing crazy value in one vid, thank you so much
Subbed man. Will def be following your movement
It’s basically 3.18 dollars per 1k streams 1.00$ per every 315 streams 🤔
How long does it have to play to count as stream
@@ayyoitspuff i think its 30 seconds
sachin 30 seconds pay you “something” but all the way through pay you the full amount
@@ayyoitspuff No it's not ( that bad ) it sucks. The whole Spotify business model sucks unless you're spotify who are setting these arbitrary per stream amounts and literally raking it in.
To put it in perspective if you sold 315 concert tickets, that would prolly make you around 1-2k minimum for a local venue
That sucks yo $4K is so little considering how much they make.
That's because it's distrokid, maybe Tunecore, cdbaby, one rpm or awal would pay the artist a higher amount
Dance & Freestyle Hits lol that makes no sense distrokid doesnt take a percentage unless its for youtube and its only like 10%
@@unkownk4464 each distributor has made deals with spotify on how much is the minimum rate. Large companies like universal and cobalt and sony music all get higher rates than the rest of us. Awal and One Rpm receive higher rates than distrokid and cd baby and the others.
It seems like Spotify is doing well, but they weren't able to be profitable since founded. They made bad deals with major labels and are now trying to make money with podcasts. But yeah for musicians (I am one, too) it's really hard to earn some money with streaming, especially if you're only known in a smaller niche.
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Tunecore is better though because you can directly bank transfer ,
With Distrokid you gotta transfer to paypal and they take like 2.9% or somethin
Loved the video in depth breakdown, keep it going!
U killed it ma G respect for the knowledge🙏🏽💯
I got a question :D how did you manage to clear all the samples you’ve used up until now ?^_^
just don’t
“If sitting on my hard drive it’d be making nothing at all.”
Thanks for sharing. All the best!
Hey, this was really encouraging. Thanks bro.
I really think artists need to stop putting music on any of these platforms.. they really are ripping artists off. They are giving artists more than other streaming platforms and it seems people are just grateful for the pretence they are receiving.. throughout the history of music it's been a case of artists being ripped off and now it's been taken even further.. thanks for showing us the earnings from your songs ✌
Would CZcams be better? What other option do we have?
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Great tips, this reminds me of my favorite quote "Luck favors the prepared" while going viral is lucky you set yourself up to get lucky! Thanks for all of this info
Great video Dre🙏🏽
I REFUSE to use "ANY" streaming services. I SUPPORT the artists by BUYING THEIR MUSIC.
Do both.
cool
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check out Taylor Ortiz I have a few tracks on all platforms Sunlight & Moongazing
Spotify only works for helping the artist reputation through charting. The best way is to have fans who would stream your songs & also buy your digital & physical records.
Streaming keeps ARTIST in that Sharecropping mode. This is why Artist needs to work together and built a Facebook/Spotify/ Ticktoc/CZcams and take complete ownership of DISTURBING & ADVERTISING their creativity. Built an APP where FANS would come to support and buy music.
you mean like bandcamp
@@UncontrolledMadness sadly bandcamp is not the best option because it doesn't have any kind of reach at all
Super informative! Thank you
Super helpful stuff... Thanks again
Dude, be careful of your sponsor. They're transaction policy is convoluted and unreliable. Please research their practises and complaints about them before promoting them...
This was posted a month ago before they were exposed 👀
Mattrixx whats this I’m not knowing
@@Mattrixx yeah fill us in
Can u fill us in
@@djsvideodiarys just look up any reviews on Distrokid on youtube, comments are filled with people who was scammed for thousands of dollars or their account being deleted for no reason
FYI, distrokid is pretty shady, would avoid
Howcome?
Why u say that?
Its because if you live outside the U.S they take 30% for the IRS taxes
@@yaywe7758 If your country has a tax treaty with the US, though, you can get that money back.
Count Zero Records fr? So I basically gotta reupload everything?
Thank you man , It really helps me a lot !!!🙌🏼
Don't let the low numbers discourage you. Great advice, especially in the beginning.
And he says Spotify is the “good one!” I had no idea the rates are so low. SOMEBODY is making a killing, but it sure ain’t the artists!
Good video but people also have to remember this is before taxes. You’re expected to pay taxes on this which based on his number is about $1500 in taxes. Should always set aside 35-40% of what you make for taxes.
This is just focused on how much they paid me but that is true. Best to have a separate savings account just for taxes too
@@LDreTheGiant yeah definitely informative video. Just wanted these young guys to know that taxes are not taken out for you lol
@@KingDaveTV I don't think he would pay very much tax because of right offs. All his expenses and cost to make the music are deductible on his taxes. Music software, instruments, computers, amps. speakers, advertisements and I lot more.
@@dennvetta5480 all your gear is a 1 time write off though. so its not like you can write it off every year
@@gahlord agreed. that comment was mainly for the youngins
Thanks for sharing this info, man!
liked that motivation man!