I see lots of people shouting about this on social media. I think it feels 'wrong' because 10 thousand plays of your song feels like a big number. I mean 10 thousand sales of your single would make you some nice money, right?
Actually selling CDs was hard. Selling music is hard. Streaming is so much more passive than people credit and so much more like the radio.
I'm absolutely with you - financially lots of people weren't successful before streaming and lots of people will continue to be unsuccessful today. Do it because you love it and if you can make a career (or even some extra cash) out of it be super thankful - there really hasn't been a better time to actually get people to hear your art.
It’s likely that the whole 10k streams came from people leaving Spotify on auto play and that no one particularly liked the song and certainly wouldn’t have found or paid for it in a CD store.
Yep. Or, because people are different and wonderful in their own way, it's entirely plausible that it's just a small group of people who really like your stuff and play it from time to time. Even if the rest of the world is completely ambivalent to it.
Actually selling CDs was hard. Selling music is hard. Streaming is so much more passive than people credit and so much more like the radio.
I'm absolutely with you - financially lots of people weren't successful before streaming and lots of people will continue to be unsuccessful today. Do it because you love it and if you can make a career (or even some extra cash) out of it be super thankful - there really hasn't been a better time to actually get people to hear your art.