According to Nielsen's 2018 Year-End Music Report, Americans streamed a record of more than 900 billion (!) songs last year. At 611 billion, the number of on-demand audio streams grew by 49 percent in 2018, as subscription-based services such as Spotify and Apple Music grew increasingly popular among American music lovers.

As the chart below illustrates, the number of songs streamed over the internet has increased more than eight-fold between 2013 and 2018. Streaming, both ad-supported and subscription-based, now accounts for 65 percent of U.S. music revenues and has long replaced CDs and downloads as the number one way of music consumption. 

 

 

Streaming, my friends, is here to stay.  Streaming your music on platforms like Spotify is a great way to gain more exposure for your music and generate additional revenue, in combination with things like licensing, performing, merchandise, etc.

Now, I’m not going to lie and tell you it’s easy to generate lots of revenue from streaming your music.  The per song earnings are still ridiculously low and it takes a substantial amount of streams to generate real income.  But, it’s possible, and with some proper planning and strategizing you can start generating income with your tracks.

I just got my fist substantial payment for my streams on Spotify after months of promoting my tracks, submitting my songs to playlists and so on.  It felt great to be able to add another revenue stream to the mix, and I’m sure the payments will continue to increase in size as I continue to add songs to my Spotify catalog and continue to promote them to more and more playlists.

If you’d like to learn more about promoting your music on Spotify, I’ve put together a few resources for you that will help you get your tracks more streams on Spotify and generate more income.

First, if you haven’t already, be sure to get The Spotify Playlist Curator Directory.  Submit your music directly to over 500 Spotify Playlist Curators with our directory.  Submitting to playlists has been my main strategy for gaining traction on Spotify.  Save $10.00 off the full cost this week. Includes free updates.

More info: https://www.htlympremium.com/spotify-directory.html

Secondly, I’ve created several free video tutorials on Spotify, that are on my Youtube Channel. 

Be sure to check these out to get even more ideas on how to succeed on Spotify.