FACT CHECK: By Spotify’s own numbers there is not 60,000 songs uploaded to the platform each day.
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00:00 Spotify’s Misleading Upload Statistic
00:26 Discrepancy in Spotify’s Track Count
00:48 Few Songs Gain Attention or Promotion
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23k is still a lot of music… 1 song every 4 seconds
That 60k number speaks to the number of tracks uploaded to ALL DSPs every day, not just Spotify.
This made me more motivated
thank you for the public service announcement
Less than 1% of independent artists uploading to Spotify even know a thing about music marketing. That’s my guess. Edit: also of those people, the amount that are “actually good” is even less.
Didn’t you also use this term in your tube videos?
I stopped posting music all together after 20 years once this statistic came out – was a bitter pill to swallow
I remember reading on a BPI report a couple of years ago that the songs uploaded on Spotify daily were around 25k so it definitely is like you said 👍🏼 Also more than 15k tracks reached 1M streams and more than 75k tracks surpassed 100k streams in 2019 across all streaming platforms according to that report, so don’t beat yourself up fellow musician! 🙂
Oh, so it’s only 23000 songs a day…that much better 🙄
I kind of feel like the number difference is a distinction without a difference.
keepin it fresh!
I always knew it was bs. Never let it affect me anyway, because there’s only one Fear 2 Stop (well six of us). Rather than paying attention to what everyone else is doing we try to find what nobody else is trying and be great at it. That’s how you separate yourself from the pack IMHO
I know I’ve said it before but I really dig this channel. I consider it an antidote to the hordes of others (the black t shirt mafia as I call them lol )pimping Facebook ads and giving absolutely shitty career advice
If 23k per day is the average, that's 161k per week, If 100k drop on Friday that leaves around 10k per day for the other 6 days of the week.
Appreciate you Jesse
I know this is unrelated but I want to ask you something. Should I release my mixtape as singles periodically or upload the mixtape as a whole. I think I remember you saying to do the former.
Hey Jesse! can you do a video about sync licensing, how to know when it’s worth spending time on?
Even with the 23k uploaded a day you have to remember you’re not even competing against any songs that aren’t in your genre. There are 5k genres on Spotify.
Let’s be outrageously generous for a second and say there are only 23 genres that Spotify has and you’re one of those genres. That cuts down your competition to 1k other songs a day. Then you have to factor in how many of those other songs in your genre are objectively trash. Let’s say half of those 1k songs are trash (also being generous here). That’s now only 500 songs a day you’re competing with.
And now let’s factor in Jesse’s comment about how many of those songs are actually and actively getting promoted by the artist. We’ll be insanely generous yet again and say half of those songs are actively being promoted.
That’s only 250 songs daily you’re competing with if youre actually putting out good music and promoting it (in reality it’s probably only 1% or less of that).
The entire debate around streaming payments, how many tracks are uploaded etc. are all skewed by how many acts are actually uploading songs that they're trying to make a career from. When they say only X percent of artists on Spotify make Y amount of money, are they counting the 13 year old who's just messing around and uploaded tracks? Or someone who uploaded their band's EP from 20 years ago on the platform so they can readily show their friends what they used to do?
We all know a ton of people who have Spotify artist pages and tracks listed that are absolute amateurs, and I don't mean that in a bad way. They do it in the same way many of us paint just for fun, or take fun photos and put them on Instagram. Imagine if someone back in the day did the same "X percent of artists on Spotify make Y amount of money" argument during the CD era when every town had dozens of kid bands pressing crappy demos to play at local shows or open mics? Nobody back then was saying that's unfair.
13,400 artists made $50k in 2020 from Spotify, which is the median income for US workers. To me, 13,400 artists (not just solo artists, but bands, collectives, etc.) made a decent living from just one platform. That has to be a better success rate than any business in history, right? Especially since we're not even counting other streaming platforms, merchandise, ticket sales, etc.
That's way less intimidating than 60k.
It's all about the effort, it be bigger than everyone else, gotta put on more effort than everyone else….doesn't matter if it's 60k or a million…it's not easy, but it's achievable.
And thanks for the update btw Jesse
Another great video for the community! 👏🏾