Minor complaints thread (4 Viewers)

[JohnnyRaz]

There’s music playing so loud outside that it sounds like a balrog is coming. The whole building is vibrating and there’s dogs going nuts.

*edit Rammstein are playing, I thought that was yesterday.
I retract my complaint.

I thought this weekend past was the last of the fairview park concerts.
seems there's more this weekend

edit: thats my minor complaint

 

[Cornu Ammonis]

I thought this weekend past was the last of the fairview park concerts.
seems there's more this weekend

edit: thats my minor complaint

It could be worse, I had to listen to Pearl Jam the other night in Marley Park when I was just trying to read in bed.

 

[therealjohnny]

It could be worse, I had to listen to Pearl Jam the other night in Marley Park when I was just trying to read in bed.

I saw photos of this. Everyone in the crowd was so old, like myself. I was but a slip of a thing when I saw them in Slane in 90-something. ( I was there for Neil Young + Booker T and the MGs)

 

[egg_]

Actually, you know what? I have the data for payouts for Stoat for all the streaming services, I'll do some sums on real data for a real band, and tell you what I find ...

Charts of per-stream payouts since 2023 for the top 5 countries where our music is listened to

Some interesting things:

• Per-stream payouts vary a lot from country to country (maybe a factor of 10 between Ireland and Turkey)
• The relative amounts each streamer pays out varies by country too - youtube and spotify pay around the same per-stream in Brazil, but in Mexico youtube pays double
• Per-stream payouts vary enormously even on the same day for a particular streamer for a particular country. For example on May 31 2023 we had 7 streams in Ireland from YouTube Music - 3 of them paid out zero, the others paid out 0.00057, 0.0027, 0.0068 and 0.014
• Spotify tends to be on the lower end of per-stream payout, but we get a little over 12x as many streams on Spotify compared to our next highest streamer (YouTube) so the vast majority (83%) of our (tiny amount of) streaming money comes from them

I guess the lesson from this for me is probably start aiming those Facebook ads we run at youtube and apple music users as well as spotify users

 

[JohnnyRaz]

I saw photos of this. Everyone in the crowd was so old, like myself. I was but a slip of a thing when I saw them in Slane in 90-something. ( I was there for Neil Young + Booker T and the MGs)

I'm actually half tempted to go down to the saw doctors on sat night.

I can weep for the lost innocence of an 80s/90s rural childhood into my plastic beercup

 

[nuke terrorist]

Charts of per-stream payouts since 2023 for the top 5 countries where our music is listened to

Some interesting things:

• Per-stream payouts vary a lot from country to country (maybe a factor of 10 between Ireland and Turkey)
• The relative amounts each streamer pays out varies by country too - youtube and spotify pay around the same per-stream in Brazil, but in Mexico youtube pays double
• Per-stream payouts vary enormously even on the same day for a particular streamer for a particular country. For example on May 31 2023 we had 7 streams in Ireland from YouTube Music - 3 of them paid out zero, the others paid out 0.00057, 0.0027, 0.0068 and 0.014
• Spotify tends to be on the lower end of per-stream payout, but we get a little over 12x as many streams on Spotify compared to our next highest streamer (YouTube) so the vast majority (83%) of our (tiny amount of) streaming money comes from them

I guess the lesson from this for me is probably start aiming those Facebook ads we run at youtube and apple music users as well as spotify users

Someone here recently said they going to work out how much Spotify paid them in music royalties (or whatever the term is). Any update on that?

Either I was either gifted music downloads by artists I know online (I bought the releases when they came out on hard format) or paid for some music from a Ukrainian I wanted to donate money to. I also paid for a download of a Chilean band to test out a debit card. So I have very little downloaded music.
But I usually spend over 2000 euros a year on records.
I only realised last year that downloads are handier on a phone than a laptop!

 

[egg_]

Someone here recently said they going to work out how much Spotify paid them in music royalties (or whatever the term is). Any update on that?

Erm ... yes. The post you're replying has a link to a google spreadsheet in it where I drew graphs and worked out averages and stuff

 

[nuke terrorist]

Erm ... yes. The post you're replying has a link to a google spreadsheet in it where I drew graphs and worked out averages and stuff

OK, Sorry. How much did they pay out in the two months at start of 2023?
It looks miniscule? More important to get music heard than worry about a few Euro here and there?

 

[egg_]

Oh yeah - totally miniscule. Since the start of 2023 we've had around 35k streams and made a grand total of €41.14 from all streaming services combined

 

[nuke terrorist]

Oh yeah - totally miniscule. Since the start of 2023 we've had around 35k streams and made a grand total of €41.14 from all streaming services combined.

Streaming revenue is a non issue then.
35,000 streams of your songs sounds pretty impressive.
If I had dozens or hundreds people enjoying something I created I would be delighted.

 

[therealjohnny]

If I had dozens or hundreds people enjoying something I created I would be delighted.

My old band has a song on YouTube currently at 2.2 million views. It was recorded before I joined but still, some accomplishment for an Irish band in a niche genre.

 

[magicbastarder]

Streaming revenue is a non issue then.
35,000 streams of your songs sounds pretty impressive.
If I had dozens or hundreds people enjoying something I created I would be delighted.

I'm sure it would be nice to also get some of the money the streaming services are charging for access to that enjoyment?

 

[magicbastarder]

My old band has a song on YouTube currently at 2.2 million views. It was recorded before I joined but still, some accomplishment for an Irish band in a niche genre.

you're in the saw doctors?

 

[JohnnyRaz]

you're in the saw doctors?

he's the accordion player

 

[therealjohnny]

you're in the saw doctors?

I'm the cool one

 

[rettucs]

My old band has a song on YouTube currently at 2.2 million views. It was recorded before I joined but still, some accomplishment for an Irish band in a niche genre.

post it there and we'll give it a few more views

 

[egg_]

If I had dozens or hundreds people enjoying something I created I would be delighted.

Last year, according to Spotify, 34 people in the world listened to my band more then they listened to anything else. That put a smile on my face for around a week

 

[nuke terrorist]

I'm sure it would be nice to also get some of the money the streaming services are charging for access to that enjoyment?

Yeah but get tens of millions of hits on Spotify first before you worry about that.

 

[Reets]

Is wearing band T-shirts at their gig cool now?
There’s hundreds with them on here.

 

[seanc]

One t-shirt is probably ok. Wearing hundreds of them at once is a bit showy imho.