Short, Simple and straight to the point 👍

Just to be 100% clear before the hate comments start pouring in. I’m definitely against Spotify appealing the recent CRB outcome, but the only thing I can do in the meantime as an independent musician is do adapt to the situation. I think it’s so important that musicians keep fighting for better streaming royalty rates overall, but I do have a rent to pay.

This video made me go take a listen on Spotify. I listened to "Blinded By Sunshine" - Very nice melody in that! I am a premium user, so I just gave you about $0.0009 of a CENT! Don't spend it all in one place, haha. "Chasing Cars" Mmmm, I really like that one, so it's going in my playlists. Thank you Casper, for making the music.

Hey, I just came to check out this video as I've started self releasing on Spotify and was curious. This led me to go and check your Spotify and absolutely love your music man. Very nice, you have a new follower for sure.

Oh my god. This is great! I appreciate this solid info and well made video. This is good info to know as i go into making my next album.

Love the fact that Spotify brings many 80's and 90's artists back to stage. And to see that they are paid rather 'well' gives me warm n fuzzy feeling.

Hey Casper, great info, straight to the point. Thanks. it's time to grow!

Thanks so much for this information. Wish more artists made this type of info public.

This is very informative and helpful. The thing everyone fails to realize is if there is no content, they can't make money advertising . They are making money from advertising and giving artist crumbs.

Thank you for the update and sharing the information. Congratulations on your progress!

Thanks for the info! Subscribed!

That’s a great accomplishment congrats 👏🏾🥳 I’m curious as to what methods you used to achieve that

Thanks man! Just started getting tens of thousands of streams that aren't reported yet, was just curious what it'd pay out in the end. Gonna drop another album and keep on grinding!

Subed! Cause I like how straight forward you are.

thanks for sharing this information. By the way congrats on your first 1M streams. I know there will be more to come.

Very nice perspective and informative, thanks man!

great video Casper! I also always wondered where all the misinformation about spotify comes from. interesting about the songwriter royalties. Also, if you are playing covers, I noticed I got about $2k per million, was your 4k for your originals only? thanks bro

Great vid, congrats for your million ! Strange fact : at the end of the video when you slightly tilt your head down while smiling, it suddently makes you look a lot nicer and friendly 😅 Sorry for that weird thing. Love you Casper ! Keep rocking !

Casper thanks for the accurate video. So with Mechanical Royalties do you mean all other royalties such as performance, non interactive and publications such as BMI, Songtrust and Sound Exchange? Thanks again.

Thank you so muchh...for giving the best information that I'm searching for a month in short length video...

Hello, interesting information. I have songs up on Spotify since 2019. I didn't pay much attention to it, but recently I decided to monitor my streams more closely through OneRPM and came to notice I have almost 2 million streams summing up all the platforms since I uploaded my music - 1.6M being on a particular song. Now, I don't understand why my revenue is of like 30 dollars. Am I reading something wrong? Is there an explanation to this?

Excellent video, I'm enjoying your music! Following you now on Spotify and KZfaq

Hello Casper... Great video, where you from? Which countries do the transmissions come from and from what country are you most listened to in Spotify?

This how videos should be straight to the point

That is a solid start. I will say you deserve more but I'm quite biased as I dream to one day put my music out there as well haha

whoah casper, thank you so much for your transparency. I agree, I think there are a lot of people out there that make money from scaring people into buying their get rich quick whatever. I feel that 4k for a million streams is a decent payout given the width of choices in the current contemporary catalog.

These are the type of videos we need. Thanks dude

What about streaming in general, this plus other streaming services?

Would you recommend using Distrokid for music distribution? It’s only 20$ a year for unlimited amount of music but idk if it’s great

Great insight. Thanks for sharing.

Have you found cd baby "honest" as far as paying you out accurately on the number of streams they say spotify played for you? Is there a way to check so you can be sure your not being ripped off and say your song is really getting 2 million plays.

I've been on Spotify for about 3 years consistently and find my streams going up gradually i noticed the more songs i put out frequently the more my audience engages with my music. Plus I started using promotion and that really helped put the payout it seems it seems like it's up and down but they payout another artist an independent artist I always just wanted to take control of a my music career and get paid for my thoughts and talents and here I am. Keep pushing one day we will all get big.

I love this.. Straight to the facts 💯👌🏽

Thanks for the video.. kindly tell how to start monetization on new Podcast on Spotify ?

How do you collect mechanicals?

Underneath my song it says E 52k are those streams?? Or what. And they said you get $3 per 1000 streams, do the math and i get $150. But on my artist account it says i have 258 streams total. What are those 52k??

Thank you so much for getting to the point. Seems every video on this topic is 30 minutes of wah wah boo hoo my life as a musician is so hard to get to the friggin dollar amount they made. And congrats on hitting a million views. That ain't easy in this megasaturated market.

How did you advertise your music?

What currency?

short and straight! Thanks!

Hi just a question.. If I make instrumental music do I need about mechanical royalty?

This seems really fair

best video yet. keep it up!

Casper, you also play a lot of fingersyle arrangements of popular songs, How does that work with Spotify, Do you have to pay royalties to the authors of the original songs?? Thanks!

how did you promote yourself that you got 1000000 streams ? im kind of new to marketing

Thank you this helped me a lot!

Do you pay tax? I'm not really gud at these sort of things does income from spotify count as taxable income

Tak for at dele, Casper! :)

That’s why it’s important to release as much music as you can. Cos you can get paid all year round

Hi Casper, do you mind sharing your way that you promoted your song bro? i’ve tried instagram ads, youtube ads, paid instagram post promo & nothing really sticks. If you could jus tell me the thing that worked the best for you i’d very much appreciate that man. If you do thank you so much 🙏🏻

great video. thanks for the info

Thanks for sharing this Casper! You 've definitely brought some clear light on this topic! I agree it is a great start earning that money from past recordings especially if you have a rent to pay (as myself). Congratulations for all you achieved! 😀🎶👏

Hello Casper! Please tell me Spotify pay for streaming your covers or your own music? Can I count on the fact that I will be paid for covers of famous songs? Thank You :)

Thank you. Finally someone who explain "normaly" :-)

Yes, fantastically straight to the point. You're saying Spotify doesn't pay much put provides you with the promotion to make $ elsewhere (like concerts or merch). My question is, Since Spotify has way more paid listeners than Apple, why don't they pay musicians more than Apple? Or differently - does it make a real difference in $ to musicians if I pay for Apple instead of Spotify?

Straight to the point great

Additionally, since you own your material and aren't using an outside publisher, you get 100% of the mechanical royalties instead of splitting them 50-50 with a publisher.

We need to prepare media plans for all places and mixed income. Streaming services is not a gold mine but if we have a good release our chance will grow up.

Hi Casper, Thanks for your informative and useful video. Can I ask you how you get your mechanical royalties please? I have written my own songs and own 100%, but all I get is streaming royalties. Thank You.

Thanks for the info! Just released a new album on Spotify called Heaven Sent. I've got 142,000 streams so far, so I'm gunna keep at it and try to hit that million!!

Thanks! for sharing!

I like your guitar playing .... this video is greta way to get people onto your spotify ha ha .... can you make a video about how you reached a million streams ?

u made rly good musics ure very talented

This seems really fair. When I get my credit card I'm hoping to find a distributor (is that what they're called?) And post my music

I'm very happy for you brother!

straight to the point video really liked it chief and very informative thanks :) I made like 20 bucks with Spotify

I really need to know how long does it take for them to send you the 4000

How do I start without any fans tho eh from scratch cos it ain’t easy sit

So once you get to 1 million monthly users is it paid monthly?

How the hell did you get 1 million streams on 10 months

Nice with some truthful information.

Straight to the point👍👍👍👍

This is interesting. How about Apple Music? Can you share how much from this one?

Soo how did you get 1mil streams?

First of all, I apologize for my dumb joke on Facebook about making 17 cents. I was really just being silly, but of course even silly comments are usually based on some sort of impression of the truth. :-) That said, my perspective is perhaps interesting because I'm one of those musicians whose career spans the time when there were lots of healthy record companies manufacturing physical copies of recordings, all the way through the tragedy of Napster and all the way to the present streaming paradigm. In every case, all through my career, it has felt like everyone else was making a much larger amount of the total money than I ever saw as the artist...or, in the case of file "sharing" (a nice word that really means theft) even my fans were deciding that my music was something they wanted but would rather just take from me rather than pay for. That was an especially difficult pill to swallow, as I felt virtually unsupported by any aspect of the "industry," including the end consumer, whom I thought liked me! It seemed like truly dark days were ahead. At least now we have graduated to the streaming model where, even though the royalties per stream seem microscopic, I see as a form of radio-on-demand. As with radio, any royalties that get paid to the artist through broadcast, when analyzed in terms of royalty per individual listener, seem infinitesimally small. But still, at least then apples are being compared to apples and not cumquats. It helped me to imagine how many people would hear one of my songs when one was played, for example, on Canada's public broadcaster, the CBC. If I'm lucky, maybe a million people would hear it all at once and then 9 months later I'd see a blip on my cheque from SOCAN (Canada's Performing Rights Society) for a number of dollars, like maybe $10 or so. So, the royalty per listener (very crudely calculated here) would be in the fractions of a cent per person, much like streaming on platforms like Spotify, Tidal, Apple Music, etc. So, the radio-on-demand idea sticks. Has streaming replaced CD sales? To a large extent, absolutely. I myself rarely buy discs anymore, except for the occasional indulgence and then I tend to buy a recording on LP, if it's available (I'm one of those cool kids who never got rid of his turntable. Hehe). If not, I'll try to support the artist by buying a CD or another piece of merchandise, because as a touring artist myself I understand how important it is to have various income streams. In the end, my own personal digital royalties have been climbing steadily and have almost reached the point where they help offset the loss of income from lack of hard sales. Another upside? I can record an album in my own studio whenever I like and release it as singles, EPs, full-length albums, double albums, triple albums...whatever. No manufacturing costs! They can be up for sale on Bandcamp or CDBaby the same day, and on all the streaming services within days, available to anyone with an internet connection. Is it an easy way to get rich? Nope. Was the music path ever an easy way to get rich for almost 100% of musicians? Also nope. Keep up the good music, Casper, and more power to you.

How much do you get for your monthly listeners?

Have you released your song in standard or pro distribution in cd baby?

Thanks for this Casper. I'd like to add something -- how much are the streaming services earning per play? I pay about US$7.70 per month for my Tidal service. Let's assume I listen 30 days per month, 3 hours per day, and 20 songs per hour -- they are making $7.70/30/3/20 = $0.0042 per song. So if they are paying artists $0.0033 per song that's pretty fair. Mark me surprised!

Does spotify count free user plays too? For stream incomes?? Plz reply

thnx Bro good info ... me wanna million streams ;)

Video is straight to the point.

GREAT VIDEO DIDNT SKIP THE AD FOR U

Seems like a fair platform which puts the ball in the musician's court

Question... Did getting the streams in such a short amount of time get you that amount? I've gotten roughly 120,000 streams in since July roughly 5-6 months and I've only earned about 249.00. I'm trying to get these numbers and times down, I figure I need needed about 500,000 streams in that length of time and I probably could have doubled it. I gotta hustle new streams faster...

After all this time 😐 , thanks man ❤️, everybody else be like "Spotify doesn't pay". I think it's just something they lie about to discourage the upcomings💔.

So Around $4000 per year. Av annual Minimum wage USA : $15,000. Even propping up earning with gigging and merch ...a living is fairly tough to make year on year for the average musician...especiallly when that 4k is split between a band... the deal between labels and spotify sewed it up for musicians...who now willingly lap up the scraps from the feast.

Who your publisher is? I want to choose one.

I think CdBaby help you get more streams. I use ditto and Amuse and funny enough. 0 streams from ditto and 100 streams from Amuse. I’m going to try cdbaby see what happens. Great video by the way. Right to the point.

thank you for this man!

Can we make money from getting streams from playlist we made from other artist songs?

Just got to 1k streams! :D very excited to get to the next magnitude: 1X10^4 = 10,000 streams!

Thanks for not stretching it into a 10 minutes video!

Hi I have 1.5 million streams on Spotify but I don't know how to claim mechanical royalties. Could you please advise or do a video. Will be helpful to lot of people.

I make trash rap tunes about chicken parm when I’m bored and was surprised to find out I actually made like three bucks just from ten of my friends listening to it on Spotify through reverbnation so I’m honestly not mad about it. It’s a great modern tool for exposure

I just followed you on Spotify pretty good music

Very neat.. Thank you

so that is $0.004 per stream. I get that doig covers....should I just stick with covers instead of original songs?

nice one just to the point

Nice thumbnail!!! I hit it straight away :D

You have to be realistic. Your music is only a tiny amount of a vast online catalogue. Most people use spotify to play their favourite songs and artists, most of them are well known or well established. It's always been very hard for new musicians to break through. Nobody is going to magically discover you. Most people will not even know you exist. The simple fact is you have to work very very hard and market yourself in multiple ways. You have to think of good ways to draw people in. If you are a bedroom musician not playing live, you will remain a bedroom musician. What I'm saying is: by all means make your own music but don't expect the world to fall at your feet. There is no substitute for hard work and determination.