Can a Recording Artist go FASTLANE

[MGD]

I’ve been recording music for a couple years now. For the most part it’s been costing me money (funded by other sources).

Recently I crossed 6,000 monthly listeners on Spotify — and I’m wondering how far I can take this.

With modern distribution you can own 100% of your royalties and publishing. But yes, the streaming platforms still have control.

1,000,000 streams earns about $3000.

I’m working to own the means of production (my own studio vs renting studio time), (creating instrumentals/beats vs buying exclusive tracks).

Social Media Content is one way to grow listeners. Other is paid ads. Word of mouth is ideal.

Brainstorm with me.

 

Dislike ads? Remove them and support the forum: Subscribe to Fastlane Insiders.

[StrikingViper69]

There’s been a few threads like this over the years, it would be worth doing a search and seeing what people wrote in those

 

[Trismigistus]

I think a recording artist can go fastlane. Look at people like Tom MacDonald, his model seems to be very successful for him. You gotta be damn good and stand out, though. You'll still lose some amount of control since you will need to use someone elses platform to promote yourself, but then could sell your CDs. At the end of the day your music needs to slap. Take a look at Oliver Anthony, a single upload of him playing guitar in a field and singing. Then he bleeeeew up, because that song was REALLY good.

 

[Fasted]

I’ve been recording music for a couple years now. For the most part it’s been costing me money (funded by other sources).

Recently I crossed 6,000 monthly listeners on Spotify — and I’m wondering how far I can take this.

With modern distribution you can own 100% of your royalties and publishing. But yes, the streaming platforms still have control.

1,000,000 streams earns about $3000.

I’m working to own the means of production (my own studio vs renting studio time), (creating instrumentals/beats vs buying exclusive tracks).

Social Media Content is one way to grow listeners. Other is paid ads. Word of mouth is ideal.

Brainstorm with me.

lets have a listen then....

 

Dislike ads? Remove them and support the forum: Subscribe to Fastlane Insiders.