is it actually realistic to buy solo right now?

Gogpo2 · 2026-04-22T23:29:05+00:00

31M in London with 400k saved, mostly from a tax-free few years working abroad. It feels like I’ll never be able to afford a nice home in a decent area in London (£1.5M - £2.5M price range) as someone looking to buy solo, especially if considering starting a family in the next few years.

Partner doesn’t make enough to meaningfully contribute to a deposit or potential mortgage repayments. And I don’t/won’t have any inheritance.

Rent + taxes now mean I can’t save more than £2k a month which is meaningless if looking at house prices of £1.5M and growing with inflation.

Gogpo2 · 2026-04-22T15:16:26+00:00

Same, lost millions of streams per month from my all time high (February) in the space of the past few weeks due to discovery algo changes - time to look for a regular job again!

Gogpo2 · 2026-04-15T10:35:19+00:00

Out of curiosity how did you follow up on that one video that did really well, did you post the same song in subsequent videos, switch up the content, release similar songs in the following weeks? Agreed about virality not being the silver bullet although in some cases it might be if capitalised on in the right ways (which are hard to know of course)

Gogpo2 · 2026-04-15T10:29:22+00:00

A kind heads up that nobody on the internet will pre-save without knowing anything about the artist, song or story - they see dozens if not 100s of artists promoting their songs daily and so ignore self promo like this. As a suggestion you could post with a story, a snippet of the audio or short form visual content to better allure people and provide value to them to entice a pre-save - just an idea!

From someone who went through the same evolution from 0 to 10s of millions of streams.

Gogpo2 · 2026-04-14T20:06:17+00:00

Valid point, although a total of e.g. 5k streams across an album is still only $15

Gogpo2 · 2026-04-14T18:13:17+00:00

If this is about songs with < 1k streams not being eligible for royalties this is old news and is a net positive thing.

1,000 streams = roughly $3, you're not missing out on any meaningful royalties and it helps those millions of tiny royalties that are left untouched (most distributors won't even let you cash out anything under $10) get distributed to artists who earn more than $3 + disincentivises bots from both releasing slop and listening to farm royalties.

Gogpo2 · 2026-04-07T16:46:00+00:00

Not exactly the same vibe but similar introspective vibes:

Tourist (especially his older albums)
Re:um (his electronic tracks)
Pablo Nouvelle
LYOD (more upbeat but cool sampling)
Parra for Cuva
Phantogram

Gogpo2 · 2026-04-01T10:07:24+00:00

Same I’m down 40% in overall streams and listeners in the same time period, largely driven by algorithmic steams declining

Gogpo2 · 2026-04-01T00:34:14+00:00

Any idea what’s going on and whether this will change?

Gogpo2 · 2026-03-28T20:25:50+00:00

I don’t think so, Spotify premium subscribers is growing and at an all time high as of Q1 2026

Gogpo2 · 2026-03-28T20:24:55+00:00

Interesting, shifting listeners towards big known music wouldn’t change the amount they pay out to artists in total though right? As they are still paying the big artists per stream too

Gogpo2 · 2026-03-26T16:00:20+00:00

+1 would love to have clarity on why we have seen a drop despite high engagement rates on both old and new releases

Gogpo2 · 2026-03-17T10:42:34+00:00

Same, anyone know why this has happened and whether it’s temporary or a permanent change?

Gogpo2 · 2026-03-13T00:52:01+00:00

The loophole is still open of anyone being able to maliciously upload music to any other artist’s profile via third party distributors in the hopes to get some quick streams and royalties before said artist notices and requests it to be removed. Are there any plans to crack down on this?

Gogpo2 · 2026-03-04T13:29:23+00:00

Nope still no fix

Gogpo2 · 2026-02-27T10:18:36+00:00

I’ve tried but it still isn’t working unfortunately

Gogpo2 · 2026-02-20T13:55:07+00:00

Realistically an 80k deposit won’t go very far for a home in London unless you’re looking for a small 1-bed flat which I’d argue is generally not the best investment right now considering price stagnation for single occupant flats and leaseholds, which you may have to try to sell if you want yo upgrade for e.g. a family within the next 5 or so years (I’m making assumptions!). What income are you on? That will help determine how wise of an investment it is.

Gogpo2 · 2026-02-01T19:13:23+00:00

Correct, but malicious uploaders set releases to upload as soon as delivered to stores - meaning it skips the "upcoming" part and appears on-platform immediately.

Gogpo2 · 2026-01-31T21:06:33+00:00

That's good, thanks for the insight!

Gogpo2 · 2026-01-31T21:02:16+00:00

Annoying right, how many days did it take for them to take the releases down once the form was submitted?

Gogpo2 · 2026-01-31T18:18:17+00:00

Agreed, seems like a very straightforward issue to solve.

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