Got too much stuff that integrates with Spotify and works really well, though. The radio next to the bed, the car, also listen to audiobooks on there. And I mostly watch YouTube on the computer with an adblocker anyway. Nothing would make me want to swap to that I don’t think.
Yeah but I can still 360 flip.
3 Swiss artists in my top 5, kinda stoked on that even if they’re definitely not buying fancy chalets because of how much I listened to them.
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At the risk of reigniting this argument, I thought this was interesting - Los Campesinos just posted how much they made from streaming this year - from nearly 7m streams on Spotify, they earned £20,429, from 1.3m streams on Apple they earned £6,497. Tidal clearly paying the most per stream though.
For wider context, they’re an independent band on their own label and the singer said in the comments their biggest income comes from ticket sales and merch. They were my third most played artist this year, I bought their last album on vinyl and also saw them live earlier this year (ticket was £33).
https://www.instagram.com/p/DR0EpgYDQoZ/?img_index=1&igsh=MTV3MjNiMnZsY28wZQ==
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Can we just have a bit of a laugh and post our silly, irrelevant Spotify Wrapped please?
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Los Campesinos are rad
I day say they wor!
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I apparently listened to an album by some band called Sharon Not Karen 25 times, thing is, I’ve never heard of them. I reckon I’ve heard a track on a You Tube video, shazamed it, found the album on Spotify and cue’d it up to listen to the next day. When I’ve put my phone down to charge I think I might have knocked the play button on the Spotify widget on my Home Screen and the phone has played it on a loop
I’m now one of their top fans but I’ve not listed to a single track
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It’s all fucked numbers wise. My second most listened album was one I saved when it came out, skimmed through once and then never played again…
This from Spotify:
Albums make the list when you’ve listened to at least 70% of an album’s tracks
Might be that you only listened to a handful of albums this far through, that’s why some random ones have shown up for people.
I work from home, I have Spotify on solid all day, albums almost always played in full.
These wraps always seem off but that was the most random thing they’ve thrown at me yet.
YouTube is at it as well. I’m not quite sure I’m that interested in air fryers
Skateboarding now down to 4th place in my life. 
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I’m not looking at that haha. Way too many Black Jack videos at the start of the year
You all make me sick!
To be honest, musicians are doing it to themselves too. So many talented but very bland social media musicians are pedalling ai music gererating platforms to make music for you and then moaning about people not supporting live musicians on insta. Everyone can be bought so music will always be fucked and it will continue to fall off a cliff without a few normies on a forum having a change of heart.
As you were.
Oh and I also pay monthly for 3 different independent radio stations, pay a monthly donation to a DIY music venue, support all local gigs, buy physical records as well as buy shit off bandcamp BEFORE ANYONE WANTS TO FUCKING SAY OWT. Spotify is just easy to have at work. Not all black or white. I do wanna delete it tho. Funnily enough my band has actively not put our music on Spotify too. But here I find myself. Fuck it I boycott Amazon and coke and other bullshit let me have this for a bit til I make my mind up, capitalism is hard to navigate.
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Yeah, well, there are many sides to it aren’t there. Music industry is fucked and full of money men who care about profit over music so the inustry doesn’t need saving it needs breaking. At least before there were A&R looking for interesting music and labels willing to take a punt but that hasn’t been a thing in a long long time. The only labels that support the artists are run by artists that have been there themselves. But even artists that start out championing certain moral outlooks can change once they get comfortable with some money that they have made. Young artists have very little to for inspiration and people to look up to for guidance.
ANYWAY!
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