Spotify vs. Everyone - How does it stack up?

One of the most important questions for musicians is how should they release their music? This is especially important in today's digital age. While there are online music stores where you can actually sell your music either in physical or digital format to your fans, music streaming sites are now gaining considerable popularity, as well.

Artists have the option to submit their music to streaming music services like Spotify, so people can search for it and stream it instantly. Every stream they receive via services like Last.FM and Spotify is actually paid to the artist. However, the actual amount received is negligible and your real benefit in streaming music is increased exposure.

In this article, we'll look at an up and coming streaming service which has long been available and popular in Europe but which has only become available in America in recent months, Spotify. Spotify streams

Spotify is a great platform for artists. Spotify is a huge streaming service that is rapidly growing in popularity. It also gains more attention and notoriety due to the fact that so much music can be streamed and downloaded for free. It is a great source of exposure that you can't afford to miss, considering how many people already use it and who will.

As I said, the actual cut you receive per stream is negligible. You earn less than a tenth of a cent per play, and you'd need millions and millions of streams of your songs before you started to see income in the hundreds or thousands of dollars unfortunately.

Unless you're signed to a major label where you've got people working to get your music on streaming sites like Spotify for you, you'll have to do it yourself. It's easy to do this for only $49.99. Tunecore, which I highly recommend, can upload your album to Spotify and all other streaming sites. This gets your album on online streaming sites like Spotify but at the same time it gets it in actual digital music stores for purchase like iTunes.

It's all about exposure and making your music available to as many people as possible, wherever they may be. Tunecore makes this easy with just a few clicks. get more info

Remember that the absolute best place right now which an independent artist can sell their music is through a free service called BandCamp in which you can earn 85-90% (minus the Paypal transaction fees) of every penny which you earn from sales of your music with BandCamp themselves only taking an industry leading 10-15% for themselves for the transaction in full.