My Spotify 2015 data
My Spotify 2015 stats:
I listened to 15,000 minutes of music. (That’s 249 hours, or 10 days worth of music consumption.)
Most listened to artist:
Gabriel Kahane: 409 streams
Brooks Williams: 210 streams
James Taylor: 109 streams <—Factoid: I accidentally, left Spotify playing JT on mute one day.
Lake Street Dive: 150 streams
Death Cab for Cutie: 128 streams
Albums:
Gabriel Kahane’s The Ambassador: 359 streams
Brooks Williams: Brooks’ Guitar 209
Lake Street Dive, Bad Self Portraits: 148 streams
Chris Thile’s Bach Sonatas – 89 streams
Death Cab for Cutie’s Transantlanticism: 67 streams
Top Songs:
“Sweet Disposition”: 59 streams (I learned it for a wedding in July!)
“Eye of the Tiger”: 54 streams (LOL! All from guitar lessons and the rock band class I taught!)
The next three top songs are from Gabriel Kahane’s The Ambassador:
“Black Garden”: 44 streams
“Veda”: 44 streams
“Empire Liquor Mart”: 43 streams
Other Stats:
I listened to 467 artists.
1839 different songs (31 more than last year).
467 artists actually seems low to me, since I use Spotify for teaching guitar lessons, and I had 30+ students at Expressions.
Question, I’m wondering:
How many total streams did I listen to in 2015 total? My estimation is: 4000-6000 streams, if a song length ranges from 2:50-4 minutes long. (However, Kahane’s Empire is 9 minutes long!)
So how much did Spotify pay the artists I listened to this year?
I pay $120 a year. 70% goes to rights holders ($84).
From my calculations, rights holders should be getting at least $0.01-0.014 a stream from me, but I’ve never seen a royalty that high on my end as an artist.
Spotify claims the average pay out is $0.006-0.0084 per stream. If that’s the case, I only paid out $40-50 to rights holders this year. Something doesn’t seem right here.
Did I do the math incorrectly?
Has streaming devalued music?
It takes 1500 streams to equal an album sale, 150 to equal a single sale. If I’m an above average streaming consumer, and my top artist is only making $2-4 from me, that doesn’t seem right.
Downloading 1839 songs would have cost almost $2K. I had access to all of this music for $120 this year. However, if we listen to these songs on Youtube, they’d have made less revenue. If we traded harddrives, they’d have made zero revenue.
New Car = More Streaming
I expected Frances Luke Accord to be in my top five streamed artists, but I listened to them via CD for 1/2 of the year. My 2001 Ford Escape died this summer. It didn’t even have an aux input! The same five CDs were in my car: Frances Luke Accord, City and Colour, Nataly Dawn, Chris Cornell’s first solo record, and a voice lesson CD.
Now that I have a newer car that connects my iPhone via Bluetooth to the radio, my streaming intake will increase.
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