Short, Simple and straight to the point 👍

@AndreyEvermore

4 жыл бұрын

word

@RobinJohnson

4 жыл бұрын

No currency though.

@dirkjan7048

4 жыл бұрын

Short would be: Spotify pays around $4000 for 1 million streams.

@tobijadoll1641

4 жыл бұрын

Can't phrase it any better. Well done Casper

@jflgta3944

3 жыл бұрын

open.spotify.com/user/314dhc5mv4tw4p7xo245xlsql3py?si=XJzMip9ZSg6qSHaOvGVr4w

Just to be 100% clear before the hate comments start pouring in. I’m definitely against Spotify appealing the recent CRB outcome, but the only thing I can do in the meantime as an independent musician is do adapt to the situation. I think it’s so important that musicians keep fighting for better streaming royalty rates overall, but I do have a rent to pay.

@charlestrudel8308

4 жыл бұрын

the royalty rate is not as important as this in fact: You know why spotify is bad, its because even if I only listen to you on spotify, my ten dollar a month wont go to you, it will go to whatever other people have listen more... My 10$ should go directly toward what i listen to, even if i listen 3h in my month.... of course, 10$ minus cut and share but still, the rest to you... Example, if I dont listen to Justin Bieber in my month, why some of my 10$ goes to him because lots of people listen to him...

@malachiborn5206

3 жыл бұрын

What did you do for promotion?

@antoniobatista8009

3 жыл бұрын

Nice for you, now imagine if you have a band.

@elwyn5150

3 жыл бұрын

@@charlestrudel8308 Bandcamp has a better reputation for supporting artists in several ways such as giving artists control on how much consumers pay. I'm curious how much artists make from Spotify vs Bandcamp in practical terms.

@charlestrudel8308

3 жыл бұрын

@@elwyn5150 for sure, the smaller bands that do receive some sales from bandcamp receive 90% of the money spent. compare that to the very small number of listen / total number of listen to everything on spotify, and any band that have one sale of an album on bandcamp each two months is probably making more money there than 6 six months on spotify, spotify at least gives them some visibility i guess...

This video made me go take a listen on Spotify. I listened to "Blinded By Sunshine" - Very nice melody in that! I am a premium user, so I just gave you about $0.0009 of a CENT! Don't spend it all in one place, haha. "Chasing Cars" Mmmm, I really like that one, so it's going in my playlists. Thank you Casper, for making the music.

@CasperEsmann

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks Michael! I’ll spend that $0.0009 wisely, I promise! 🙏🏼

@draco_kaiser

4 жыл бұрын

@@CasperEsmann so what if i made an account to stream my single? im not paying for streams or using any bots im streaming organically. the reason im asking is because my distributor closed my account for abusive streaming activities but i have been streaming my song myself normally. and im so confused and frustrated

@CasperEsmann

4 жыл бұрын

@@draco_kaiser - Sorry man, I don't know anything about that. I'm just a musician, I've never streamed my own music in that way before. I would check up on the streaming laws and see if what you're doing is actually illegal, that's the best advice I can give you.

@WuPac216

4 жыл бұрын

😂💯💯

@skybabyfingaz

4 жыл бұрын

open.spotify.com/artist/6C4GpqW9J7IgY3uqmqsId9?si=scoS8g0-S0iuBsCEwaoruQ

Love the fact that Spotify brings many 80's and 90's artists back to stage. And to see that they are paid rather 'well' gives me warm n fuzzy feeling.

Thanks so much for this information. Wish more artists made this type of info public.

@jflgta3944

3 жыл бұрын

open.spotify.com/user/314dhc5mv4tw4p7xo245xlsql3py?si=XJzMip9ZSg6qSHaOvGVr4w

Hey, I just came to check out this video as I've started self releasing on Spotify and was curious. This led me to go and check your Spotify and absolutely love your music man. Very nice, you have a new follower for sure.

This is very informative and helpful. The thing everyone fails to realize is if there is no content, they can't make money advertising . They are making money from advertising and giving artist crumbs.

@calebcameron1753

4 жыл бұрын

Yes, but you also need to consider that Spotify is running still at a lose. They gotta try and make the money.

Oh my god. This is great! I appreciate this solid info and well made video. This is good info to know as i go into making my next album.

Hey Casper, great info, straight to the point. Thanks. it's time to grow!

Thanks for the info! Subscribed!

Thank you for the update and sharing the information. Congratulations on your progress!

@CasperEsmann

5 жыл бұрын

Glad you found it useful!

Thanks man! Just started getting tens of thousands of streams that aren't reported yet, was just curious what it'd pay out in the end. Gonna drop another album and keep on grinding!

Subed! Cause I like how straight forward you are.

Very nice perspective and informative, thanks man!

That’s a great accomplishment congrats 👏🏾🥳 I’m curious as to what methods you used to achieve that

This how videos should be straight to the point

thanks for sharing this information. By the way congrats on your first 1M streams. I know there will be more to come.

@CasperEsmann

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks Edwin!

Excellent video, I'm enjoying your music! Following you now on Spotify and KZread

These are the type of videos we need. Thanks dude

Great insight. Thanks for sharing.

I've been on Spotify for about 3 years consistently and find my streams going up gradually i noticed the more songs i put out frequently the more my audience engages with my music. Plus I started using promotion and that really helped put the payout it seems it seems like it's up and down but they payout another artist an independent artist I always just wanted to take control of a my music career and get paid for my thoughts and talents and here I am. Keep pushing one day we will all get big.

@dolokeyzah8626

3 жыл бұрын

Post your monthly growth

@viciousv9671

2 жыл бұрын

But u only have 6 monthly listeners

@WuPac216

2 жыл бұрын

@@viciousv9671 it's up and down. Right now I haven't been using any promotion so with that being said one while you might have 5000 monthly listeners then next 6. Plus I got some of my music flagged for using some of these bad curated bot controlled advertisers.

@viciousv9671

2 жыл бұрын

@@WuPac216 can you share those advertisers so we can avoid them?

@WuPac216

2 жыл бұрын

@@viciousv9671 it's hard to tell the ones that actually did it, but to avoid things like that I would check for audience participation on their curator sites and playlist. I know when I use one of the guys of Fiverr it's hard to say because I was using multiple people at the time try not to use the ones that are super cheap but some of them are really good it's hard to tell

Thank you so muchh...for giving the best information that I'm searching for a month in short length video...

That is a solid start. I will say you deserve more but I'm quite biased as I dream to one day put my music out there as well haha

@CasperEsmann

5 жыл бұрын

Aaw, thanks Sean!

whoah casper, thank you so much for your transparency. I agree, I think there are a lot of people out there that make money from scaring people into buying their get rich quick whatever. I feel that 4k for a million streams is a decent payout given the width of choices in the current contemporary catalog.

Great vid, congrats for your million ! Strange fact : at the end of the video when you slightly tilt your head down while smiling, it suddently makes you look a lot nicer and friendly 😅 Sorry for that weird thing. Love you Casper ! Keep rocking !

@CasperEsmann

5 жыл бұрын

Haha, thanks Roro! Believe it or not, I’m actually a pretty happy and friendly guy!😂

short and straight! Thanks!

This seems really fair

@foreverblessedministries

4 жыл бұрын

Luna Radio you should post me on your channel before I blow up

@theretardedamericanchild4905

3 жыл бұрын

@@foreverblessedministries did you blow up?

@wonndonn

3 жыл бұрын

@@theretardedamericanchild4905 😂😂

@beatsandrhymes3993

3 жыл бұрын

Hell no!!

@shotta2201

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah and imagine if he did that number on like 10 music distribution platforms

That’s why it’s important to release as much music as you can. Cos you can get paid all year round

@Taylzz

6 ай бұрын

OR you release really good songs that people listen to a lot! xD

I love this.. Straight to the facts 💯👌🏽

@gatijhonecricklover2286

4 жыл бұрын

Hi guys i am fsohelbd. I am a digital marketer. I do organically spotify promotion by various social media marketing. so you will get organic listeners on your spotify. if you want take my organic service just DM me on Instagram @fsohelbd. Thank you

best video yet. keep it up!

great video. thanks for the info

Thank you this helped me a lot!

Straight to the point great

Hello Casper... Great video, where you from? Which countries do the transmissions come from and from what country are you most listened to in Spotify?

@CasperEsmann

5 жыл бұрын

Hi, I'm from Denmark. Most of my streams comes from the US.

Additionally, since you own your material and aren't using an outside publisher, you get 100% of the mechanical royalties instead of splitting them 50-50 with a publisher.

@goncharovblog

4 жыл бұрын

How to put my own music to Spotify without outside publisher?

@BeatsBySkorze

4 жыл бұрын

@@goncharovblog you can't do it yourself but I use distrokid and they take 0% fees from your songs sign up with this and you can start of with 7% off the original plan distrokid.com/vip/seven/1439181 take care and i wish you success

We need to prepare media plans for all places and mixed income. Streaming services is not a gold mine but if we have a good release our chance will grow up.

great video Casper! I also always wondered where all the misinformation about spotify comes from. interesting about the songwriter royalties. Also, if you are playing covers, I noticed I got about $2k per million, was your 4k for your originals only? thanks bro

Hello, interesting information. I have songs up on Spotify since 2019. I didn't pay much attention to it, but recently I decided to monitor my streams more closely through OneRPM and came to notice I have almost 2 million streams summing up all the platforms since I uploaded my music - 1.6M being on a particular song. Now, I don't understand why my revenue is of like 30 dollars. Am I reading something wrong? Is there an explanation to this?

Yes, fantastically straight to the point. You're saying Spotify doesn't pay much put provides you with the promotion to make $ elsewhere (like concerts or merch). My question is, Since Spotify has way more paid listeners than Apple, why don't they pay musicians more than Apple? Or differently - does it make a real difference in $ to musicians if I pay for Apple instead of Spotify?

I'm very happy for you brother!

Casper thanks for the accurate video. So with Mechanical Royalties do you mean all other royalties such as performance, non interactive and publications such as BMI, Songtrust and Sound Exchange? Thanks again.

How the hell did you get 1 million streams on 10 months

@CasperEsmann

4 жыл бұрын

Hard work and lots of wonderful fans who streams my music.😊

@WuPac216

4 жыл бұрын

Thats what I'm saying. Do tell

@joshrentos216

4 жыл бұрын

Monta Collier the dudes lying nobody listens to his music, go look

@recording001

4 жыл бұрын

Josh Rentos His top two songs alone have totaled 1 million streams.

@dblog

4 жыл бұрын

Canyon Root @joshrentos lol. An apology is required

Thank you. Finally someone who explain "normaly" :-)

Thanks for not stretching it into a 10 minutes video!

Video is straight to the point.

Seems like a fair platform which puts the ball in the musician's court

Thanks! for sharing!

Have you found cd baby "honest" as far as paying you out accurately on the number of streams they say spotify played for you? Is there a way to check so you can be sure your not being ripped off and say your song is really getting 2 million plays.

Tak for at dele, Casper! :)

Thanks for the info! Just released a new album on Spotify called Heaven Sent. I've got 142,000 streams so far, so I'm gunna keep at it and try to hit that million!!

Thank you so much for getting to the point. Seems every video on this topic is 30 minutes of wah wah boo hoo my life as a musician is so hard to get to the friggin dollar amount they made. And congrats on hitting a million views. That ain't easy in this megasaturated market.

Thanks for sharing this Casper! You 've definitely brought some clear light on this topic! I agree it is a great start earning that money from past recordings especially if you have a rent to pay (as myself). Congratulations for all you achieved! 😀🎶👏

What about streaming in general, this plus other streaming services?

u made rly good musics ure very talented

Nice with some truthful information.

@CasperEsmann

5 жыл бұрын

I’m glad you found it useful Michael!

Straight to the point👍👍👍👍

how did you promote yourself that you got 1000000 streams ? im kind of new to marketing

@SynthApprentice

4 жыл бұрын

This is what I'm wondering, too.

nice one just to the point

thnx Bro good info ... me wanna million streams ;)

GREAT VIDEO DIDNT SKIP THE AD FOR U

thank you for this man!

How did you advertise your music?

Would you recommend using Distrokid for music distribution? It’s only 20$ a year for unlimited amount of music but idk if it’s great

I make trash rap tunes about chicken parm when I’m bored and was surprised to find out I actually made like three bucks just from ten of my friends listening to it on Spotify through reverbnation so I’m honestly not mad about it. It’s a great modern tool for exposure

Underneath my song it says E 52k are those streams?? Or what. And they said you get $3 per 1000 streams, do the math and i get $150. But on my artist account it says i have 258 streams total. What are those 52k??

How do you collect mechanicals?

Very neat.. Thank you

Commenting for the algorithm...this video is just perfect

Thanks for the video.. kindly tell how to start monetization on new Podcast on Spotify ?

After all this time 😐 , thanks man ❤️, everybody else be like "Spotify doesn't pay". I think it's just something they lie about to discourage the upcomings💔.

it almost makes you feel whats the point for all the hard work

This seems really fair. When I get my credit card I'm hoping to find a distributor (is that what they're called?) And post my music

straight to the point video really liked it chief and very informative thanks :) I made like 20 bucks with Spotify

Thank you that was helpful

First of all, I apologize for my dumb joke on Facebook about making 17 cents. I was really just being silly, but of course even silly comments are usually based on some sort of impression of the truth. :-) That said, my perspective is perhaps interesting because I'm one of those musicians whose career spans the time when there were lots of healthy record companies manufacturing physical copies of recordings, all the way through the tragedy of Napster and all the way to the present streaming paradigm. In every case, all through my career, it has felt like everyone else was making a much larger amount of the total money than I ever saw as the artist...or, in the case of file "sharing" (a nice word that really means theft) even my fans were deciding that my music was something they wanted but would rather just take from me rather than pay for. That was an especially difficult pill to swallow, as I felt virtually unsupported by any aspect of the "industry," including the end consumer, whom I thought liked me! It seemed like truly dark days were ahead. At least now we have graduated to the streaming model where, even though the royalties per stream seem microscopic, I see as a form of radio-on-demand. As with radio, any royalties that get paid to the artist through broadcast, when analyzed in terms of royalty per individual listener, seem infinitesimally small. But still, at least then apples are being compared to apples and not cumquats. It helped me to imagine how many people would hear one of my songs when one was played, for example, on Canada's public broadcaster, the CBC. If I'm lucky, maybe a million people would hear it all at once and then 9 months later I'd see a blip on my cheque from SOCAN (Canada's Performing Rights Society) for a number of dollars, like maybe $10 or so. So, the royalty per listener (very crudely calculated here) would be in the fractions of a cent per person, much like streaming on platforms like Spotify, Tidal, Apple Music, etc. So, the radio-on-demand idea sticks. Has streaming replaced CD sales? To a large extent, absolutely. I myself rarely buy discs anymore, except for the occasional indulgence and then I tend to buy a recording on LP, if it's available (I'm one of those cool kids who never got rid of his turntable. Hehe). If not, I'll try to support the artist by buying a CD or another piece of merchandise, because as a touring artist myself I understand how important it is to have various income streams. In the end, my own personal digital royalties have been climbing steadily and have almost reached the point where they help offset the loss of income from lack of hard sales. Another upside? I can record an album in my own studio whenever I like and release it as singles, EPs, full-length albums, double albums, triple albums...whatever. No manufacturing costs! They can be up for sale on Bandcamp or CDBaby the same day, and on all the streaming services within days, available to anyone with an internet connection. Is it an easy way to get rich? Nope. Was the music path ever an easy way to get rich for almost 100% of musicians? Also nope. Keep up the good music, Casper, and more power to you.

@CasperEsmann

5 жыл бұрын

No hard feelings at all man, I knew you were just pulling my leg! 😁 Everything you wrote here is absolutely spot on, thanks for taking the time to share these thoughts with us! Also, you’re one of the hardest working musicians I know, and I’ve always respected you and looked up to you, both as a musician and as a person! Hope we finally get the chance to meet someday!

@DonRossMusic

5 жыл бұрын

@@CasperEsmann Would love to meet soon!

@MortenBN1988

5 жыл бұрын

You should make this happen and play a tune together!! :-O

I don’t understand how on of my songs hit 118k streams and I’ve only been paid $153 for it

@sonaate

4 жыл бұрын

he literally just explained it.

@seven.309

4 жыл бұрын

@@sonaate 😂😂

@ybunreleased2157

4 жыл бұрын

Aye

@amaribrown3752

4 жыл бұрын

Nah he's still not getting paid right with that math he's only getting 0.001 cents per play

@nonperial7692

4 жыл бұрын

I made the same thing I'm at 546,000 streams and only made $1000. I should at least have half of what this guy put on his video plus I don't have a publisher I'm am my own army. All the music I create is made by myself. I do think Spotify rips off artist that aren't house hold names.

What currency?

Casper, you also play a lot of fingersyle arrangements of popular songs, How does that work with Spotify, Do you have to pay royalties to the authors of the original songs?? Thanks!

I really need to know how long does it take for them to send you the 4000

They pay less then that when non premium accounts stream your music

You have to be realistic. Your music is only a tiny amount of a vast online catalogue. Most people use spotify to play their favourite songs and artists, most of them are well known or well established. It's always been very hard for new musicians to break through. Nobody is going to magically discover you. Most people will not even know you exist. The simple fact is you have to work very very hard and market yourself in multiple ways. You have to think of good ways to draw people in. If you are a bedroom musician not playing live, you will remain a bedroom musician. What I'm saying is: by all means make your own music but don't expect the world to fall at your feet. There is no substitute for hard work and determination.

This is interesting. How about Apple Music? Can you share how much from this one?

Thanks for this Casper. I'd like to add something -- how much are the streaming services earning per play? I pay about US$7.70 per month for my Tidal service. Let's assume I listen 30 days per month, 3 hours per day, and 20 songs per hour -- they are making $7.70/30/3/20 = $0.0042 per song. So if they are paying artists $0.0033 per song that's pretty fair. Mark me surprised!

@alvingardner7943

3 жыл бұрын

Lol that’s not fair! Came across a site fairpaymusic.com they seem to be coming with the right pay!:)

I just followed you on Spotify pretty good music

@CasperEsmann

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks man!

@relaxationdaily

4 жыл бұрын

@@Sk8tieTv You sound so desperate telling people to subscribe and saying I HAVE GREAT MUSIC ALSO. lol. Please just don't.

Excellent thanks

Just got to 1k streams! :D very excited to get to the next magnitude: 1X10^4 = 10,000 streams!

I like your guitar playing .... this video is greta way to get people onto your spotify ha ha .... can you make a video about how you reached a million streams ?

@CasperEsmann

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks! I'd low to make a "how to" video, but the reality is - there's no simple way to achieve a lot of streams organically. You just gotta produce the best music you possibly can, and eventually some big playlists will pick your stuff up! And of course use every single outlet you can to promote your music, Facebook, Instagram, KZread etc.

So once you get to 1 million monthly users is it paid monthly?

More gigs more money!

Soo how did you get 1mil streams?

How much do you get for your monthly listeners?

Nice thumbnail!!! I hit it straight away :D

Straight forward......🙏🙏👍👍👍love from india

The money is relative. I think its great. I spent $4,000 on 6 songs in Nashville. I just released them with Distrokid. I'm like the dude that has a Ferrari and doesn't know how to drive it! Lol. I'd be ecstatic if I made my money back in one year! Thank you for the post! Great content!

@alvingardner7943

3 жыл бұрын

Bro go and take a look at fairpaymusic.com they sound like they are about to pay y’all ijs

Hi Casper, do you mind sharing your way that you promoted your song bro? i’ve tried instagram ads, youtube ads, paid instagram post promo & nothing really sticks. If you could jus tell me the thing that worked the best for you i’d very much appreciate that man. If you do thank you so much 🙏🏻

@bhaveshtochabbra6853

4 жыл бұрын

Checkout edgar sandovalijr will help😀

Do you pay tax? I'm not really gud at these sort of things does income from spotify count as taxable income

So is that USD?

Hi just a question.. If I make instrumental music do I need about mechanical royalty?

@CasperEsmann

4 жыл бұрын

It doesn’t matter if your music has lyrics or not. :-) If it’s original then it’s original.

@AftertuneMusic

4 жыл бұрын

@@CasperEsmann great! I'm going to try to understand how mechanical royalty works, anyway good channel :)

I think CdBaby help you get more streams. I use ditto and Amuse and funny enough. 0 streams from ditto and 100 streams from Amuse. I’m going to try cdbaby see what happens. Great video by the way. Right to the point.

Who your publisher is? I want to choose one.