I don't deal in the music you make to understand your market, but use https://everynoise.com/ to really narrow the genre and then check https://chartmetric.com/ for the stations that play those artists. Source: about 1 year ago

Could get a bit costly but look into chartmetric.com. It's a music database full of different playlists and their curators. Ideally your best bet is to find smaller-indie artists you consider yourself similar to and look into what playlists they've been featured on and try contacting those curators. If they don't have a lot of major artists on their playlists and typically feature material from bands/artists that... Source: over 1 year ago

I interned at a company called Chartmetric one summer that you may find interesting. Happy to chat if you have any questions! https://chartmetric.com/. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

I tried looking at some tools out there like ChartMetric but they don't have the data we need. I also tried to contact Spotify but they couldn't help me out there. Source: almost 2 years ago

Has anyone used programs like Chartmetric, Sodatone, Songsters and Sound Charts? Pros/Cons? What type of data or queries do you find the most useful? Are there any other programs besides these that are helpful? Source: about 2 years ago

According to Spotify's data report site[0], there were 17,800 artists grossing over $50k from Spotify, out of a denominator of ~8 million, or 200k if you use Spotify's estimate of “professional or professionally aspiring”. I don't know much at all about the music industry, so I don't really have a conclusion from those data, but that seems low. It also does put a (not insignificant) number on the independents... - Source: Hacker News / 5 months ago

They’ve updated their Loud & Clear page with stats from 2022 on royalty payments and overall Artist payouts. Source: over 1 year ago

Just 20% of spotify artists have more than 50 listeners. Additionally there are an estimate 80 million total tracks on Spotify and only 719,000 tracks have more than 1 million views, that's less than 1%. Haken are literally in the top 1% of artists on spotify. This is based on 2021 data: https://loudandclear.byspotify.com/. Source: over 1 year ago

AFAIK royalties are paid out for every stream over 30 seconds long. The 'context' (album, playlist, single play) doesn't matter. "royalties [are] based on an artist’s share of overall streams across the platform" [1] My guess is that playlists lead to more engagement than albums. Users listen longer, and discover new music, which leads to more listening in the future. [1]... - Source: Hacker News / about 2 years ago

> This is where I shrug my shoulders and say "Why not [blame] both?" I've yet to see any of these discussions to blame both. And your own comment literally never mentions the Big Three. > can all be screwing over creators in conjunction with their publishers. I prefer not to wade in to conspiracy territory. Apple may have power over the industry, but they are an outlier. The rest do whatever the industry tels them... - Source: Hacker News / about 2 years ago