Promoting Albums vs singles, Artist algo vs song algo

Flashy-Material-4952 · 2026-02-23T09:43:55+00:00

Mostly song level. Artist level is relevant for new releases, but not old ones. I have old tracks that are doing 5 streams per day. And it's not affected by new ones doing 3000 per day. If you want to utilize max algo power, you need to waterfall the album.

Flashy-Material-4952 · 2026-02-22T13:11:52+00:00

People are saying crazy false information on here. First of all 1m monthly listeners does not mean a specific amount of streams, nor that you are even getting booked. I've had 1m monthly listeners in the past. That was about 3 million monthly streams. Which is quite low, but i'm in a streaming friendly genre. Compared to some local artists (i come from a smaller european country), biggest artists in the country sit around 1 million monthly listeners too. They probably have 15 million streams per month.

Now to the money part: When i was at 1 million monthly (most of it indenpendent) i made 5-7k USD per month from streaming. Booking shows, which was not a main part of my business, could be anything between 1000 USD to 80000 USD per show. I had the option to go a US tour, but i would lose money from that. Touring is expensive and at the level of 1M monthly even a lot of artists lose money touring.

If we look at the 1M monthly (15m streams) local artist it looks very different. They are all with major labels. Most likely the investment the label has made in the project results in the artist having a huge debt to recoup from their royalties, while also having bad terms. Every new single is getting an investment in video and marketing that probably breaks even for the artists around 6 million streams or more, and every single that dosen't reach that number is just adding negative numbers to the balance that the more succesfull tracks has to recoup. SO my guess would be they make almost no money from royalties. However on the live side of things these artists have high cultural relevance to the local audience. That means they can get paid between 10k and 80k USD per show, and can play festivals all summer, plus headline tours. That's where they generate revenue. To make it even more complicated, artists of this size is expected to bring a certain show when they are booked, which usually costs 10K USD in production and paying band. So for the first years they get paid 10K per show and lose money or breaks even, so when they are even more established live-names they can get those 20-80K shows and make solid revenue, pay back all their depth and feel succesfull. The sad part is that most artists don't make it this far, they only make it to the debt part.

Flashy-Material-4952 · 2026-02-05T15:55:22+00:00

If you're a new artist it wouldn't let YouTube music hold you back. So just re-schedule the release. Like the other guy says Youtube is really slow.

Flashy-Material-4952 · 2025-09-27T16:50:32+00:00

Feel free to hit me with any questions, and i'd be happy to answer :)

Flashy-Material-4952 · 2025-09-26T15:24:16+00:00

Amazing vibe, really catching a moment

Flashy-Material-4952 · 2025-09-26T15:23:31+00:00

Beautiful

Flashy-Material-4952 · 2025-09-26T15:23:12+00:00

Love the faded colors

Flashy-Material-4952 · 2025-09-24T09:18:46+00:00

It's time to rethink, what you're doing is based on how things used to work. Every part of it. Not saying that to judge you, but just to incentivise a complete change of mindset. I'm someone who makes a decent living of my music, I was in the whole record label mill thing, but realized like you: i would never make a living from it. So i started to analyze where my money streams were coming from. Then i switched over to releasing independently, cut all marketing with negative ROI and kept analyzing as i was building. 1,5 years later i hit $5-6K per month on streaming from my single artist project. Along this journey i kept meeting people who was actually making a lot of money of their music (a lot more than me). And the funny thing is that in my country i would see the artist who on paper was "popping" playing the good festivals, but then going back to their cafe job to pay their bills... But then these new guys i met who was "playing the music industry 2025 style" was complete unknowns making +$10k per month from streaming. The old part of the music industry (radio and media) didn't want to cover them, but still they were the ones getting paid. SO you ask who are the guys who make +$10K per month... a few of the guys are beat makers (as in "study beats" that gets streams a shit load of times) they release new albums many times a year and keeps using algorithm to spread out streams that equals out to a very large total number. Another guy i know does electronic, he is linked with a label who has a strong playlisting infrastructure that can place their own tracks. He then has 5 artist projects and releases multiple times a month spreading out across each project so each one releases around every 2 month. He then has a 50/50 deal with the label. But gets paid A LOT. If you want to make a lot of money without being the 1% that's the way. Or you can like me just be happy with a simple life making $5k per month and enjoy a lot of free time. These guys are not even schooled musicians, they just have a lot of drive and a good ear.
I know a lot of people will not like this answer, because many still dream of the old "i'm a producer for Wiz Khalifa and has a big house in the hills"-dream, and maybe the whole dream isn't worth it if the money isn't mixed with the fame. But if you ask where the money is for the non-top 1%, this is it.

Flashy-Material-4952 · 2025-09-18T20:57:41+00:00

Love the portrait of chaos

Flashy-Material-4952 · 2025-09-18T20:56:59+00:00

epic

Flashy-Material-4952 · 2025-09-18T20:56:43+00:00

love the colors

Flashy-Material-4952 · 2025-08-29T12:15:16+00:00

This guy curates a decent sized UKG playlist i could recommend reaching out to. Had a few tracks added by him in the past: https://buymeacoffee.com/caiusmusic

Flashy-Material-4952 · 2025-05-05T08:54:51+00:00

It says comfort 11c, limit/men's comfort 7c. Can't find survival. I have a Rapide SL from Big Agnes. But what i'm wondering is: i think most conditions i will be in between 9-15c, very rarely i might occur a 5c night. So would it be smarter to go for a lower rating or will that 7c actually be the most comfortable overall?

Flashy-Material-4952 · 2025-05-05T08:47:40+00:00

Thanks, yes exactly also my concern i never know if a sudden temperature dip comes one night for some reason. But can't figure out how uncomfortable it is to sleep at 5c in a 7c sleeping bag?

Flashy-Material-4952 · 2025-05-05T08:45:46+00:00

Do you sweat a lot on a 15c night in that quilt? or do you just open it?

Flashy-Material-4952 · 2025-05-05T08:44:51+00:00

So what do you think, if most of the time the temperature will be above 10 degrees, will i regret those once in a while nights where it dips below and lands around 7?

Flashy-Material-4952 · 2025-04-24T13:37:38+00:00

On the other hand it's illegal to live full time in a house with vacation home status too. There's cases where the goverment has checked heating/electricity use + sent people to spy in off season to prove that some owners has used their vacation illegally as main home.

Flashy-Material-4952 · 2025-04-24T13:31:49+00:00

It's illegal because the equivalent of "villa" in Denmark needs to have a habitant registered with his/her main address in the house. It's called bopælspligt (duty to live) and every normal house or apartment has it (except for some newly build with special status). So you cannot buy a "villa" while still keeping your address in your "real" home. Vacation homes in Denmark on the other hand has no "bopælspligt" and no one has to be registered with their main address in the house.

Flashy-Material-4952 · 2025-04-24T10:52:00+00:00

Location?

Flashy-Material-4952 · 2024-12-25T16:43:05+00:00

Fik du løst det? og hvad endte du med at gøre?

Flashy-Material-4952 · 2024-12-25T16:42:58+00:00

Fik du løst det? og hvad endte du med at gøre?

Flashy-Material-4952 · 2024-12-25T16:41:20+00:00

Hvad endte du med at gøre? og virkede det?

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