What’s your thoughts on the music industry these days?
I used to be all for Spotify. But they’ve been making really poor decisions lately and only seem to benefit signed artists whilst making it more difficult for independents. I’ve watched myself and other artists I know account’s plummet in listenership over the last couple years.
YouTube music isn’t much different either. Despite all the subs, I get paid crumbs despite working so hard on here & even with over 500 upload, it feels like showing my work into a ghost town at times.
Live shows are so few and far between too. When I email promoters and venues, I never get a reply so it’s clear that there’s so much gate keeping going on still. Even when I did a support performance for Sierra Veins at her London show, I was paid a fraction of the cost to be there, treated like garbage by booking management and despite the organisers being impressed, I never got any callbacks. Especially after performing my heart out, I was treated like a ghost.
Even collaborating with other artists has faded a bit too where people I’d regularly work with have in their majority seemed to have lost interest or even previously interested potential ones have lost the spark.
I feel pretty discouraged to be an artist at the moment. I wish things would change for the better. I announced multiple albums and the only interaction I got was ‘good job?’. So I just feel kinda exhausted naturally.
I feel super stuck.
I’ll keep going but just don’t know what the answers are.
Thanks for putting up with my vent if you got this far. Might delete later.
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What’s your thoughts on the music industry these days?
I used to be all for Spotify. But they’ve been making really poor decisions lately and only seem to benefit signed artists whilst making it more difficult for independents. I’ve watched myself and other artists I know account’s plummet in listenership over the last couple years.
YouTube music isn’t much different either. Despite all the subs, I get paid crumbs despite working so hard on here & even with over 500 upload, it feels like showing my work into a ghost town at times.
Live shows are so few and far between too. When I email promoters and venues, I never get a reply so it’s clear that there’s so much gate keeping going on still. Even when I did a support performance for Sierra Veins at her London show, I was paid a fraction of the cost to be there, treated like garbage by booking management and despite the organisers being impressed, I never got any callbacks. Especially after performing my heart out,
I was treated like a ghost.
Even collaborating with other artists has faded a bit too where people I’d regularly work with have in their majority seemed to have lost interest or even previously interested potential ones have lost the spark.
I feel pretty discouraged to be an artist at the moment. I wish things would change for the better. I announced multiple albums and the only interaction I got was ‘good job?’. So I just feel kinda exhausted naturally.
I feel super stuck.
I’ll keep going but just don’t know what the answers are.
Thanks for putting up with my vent if you got this far. Might delete later.
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