I love Spotify. Listening to music on it in the past 20 months has saved my life – literally (mainly thanks to playlists from my friend Ecki who I wrote about in my previous blog today).
But today I remembered why I also hate Spotify… I received my ‘2024 Wrapped For Artists’ email.
The summary?
28,000 streams by over 4,000 listeners in 94 countries this year.
How much money have I been paid for that?
Basically sweet FA.
Fans are always wide-eyed and horrified when I tell them that not a penny from their Spotify premium is coming my way. Rather that the major record labels are the ones making a killing.
Fortunately I’m not making music for money. I make music to hopefully make other people feel better, and that makes me feel better. Worth it every time someone listens to one of my songs on Spotify. So please keep listening, but just be wise to the BS that I’m being paid for it.
If you want to support my music, please head to https://emilymaguire.bandcamp.com/
xx