Spotify: 25000 people listened to your album, we’ll never tell you who they are and how they found you! Here’s $1.74.
Bandcamp: 30 people bought your album and left a comment! Here’s $250.
Can anyone confirm first hand if this really captures common levels of Bandcamp payout? How about other such platforms?
And for that matter, if a DJ posts an hour-long set to YouTube and a couple of other sites, how is the payment to them from those sites for that sort of content?
@lehto Thanks!
Often I see artists post DJ mixes to some combination of YouTube, SoundCloud, MixCloud, herethis.at, and straight podcast, and I always really wish I knew which way to go to get the DJ maximal support.
@volkris Yes, but the support is lesser the payments you get as an artist, than more the visibility of your song or your artist name. If a bigger DJ uses a song of me in his/her mix it's more likely that other people see and like the song and will maybe buy it too. So it's kind of promo if your song is used in a mix. I think I speak for most of the music artists if I say buying our music from Bandcamp is till the best option because streaming rates on most platforms are really low.
@volkris Yes I can confirm it, you get 85-90% of each $ paid to you (minus a paypal or credit card fee). So 250$ for 30 album purchases at an album price of 8 to 10$ is totally normal. Even the Spotify rate is correct. Youtube: If you upload a dj mix on youtube youtube will autodetect what tracks you have used in your mix & will pay the royalties to the rights holder of these song. But not everyone knows: YouTube streaming rate payouts are less than them from Spotify. Bandcamp is still the best!