Originally Posted by Gregory Watton
Once you get to the point where your songs are getting millions of streams and you're only earning a royalty check of 20 bucks as compensation, you might be singing a different tune there bud. I for one, do not share your sentiment and neither do many of our songwriter peers who are getting millions of streams. This is the difference between a hobbyist, and a career professional.


I for one disagree with you wholeheartedly. Your not getting millions of stream, but if you were, its because it was free.

And if it were THAT good, people would buy it. If nobody was buying your music after millions of streams, they never would have or never will, and most likely it's not very good.

I have heard songwriters complain about a song of theirs being downloaded that the wrote 25 years ago. Now honestly, do you think anybody was going to buy that? They downloaded it cause it was there and they happned to see it, and figured it was free.

The real trouble people have is being heard, if the millions of streams example holds up, thats not a problem.

Im not saying it's a perfect model, probably needs to be tweaked, but Joe Songwriter would be etremely lucky to have a millions streams of his music.

Do you have music on spotify?




Last edited by December Rock Star; 11/12/12 09:52 AM.