How Much Spotify Paid Me For 10,000,000 Streams... 

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That's unbelievably transparent of you to share your revenue. Keep up the incredible work dude.

Just learned "Farewell," found a fun trick with a loop pedal to get the double-guitar parts in the verses and final chorus. Wanted to say your music has probably been my number #1 influence in my learning the instrument over the last year, so stoked that I'm starting to be able to play some of your easier songs. Much love from the US :) ...Now to practice those sweep picking lines from Waterworks 😅

2:44 Spotify has "pitch" feature to pitch editors, potentially get added to one of their lists 3:50 Waterworks: water sloshing inside guitar 4:09 drilling holes in guitar 4:31 importance of good thumbnail and title 4:57 TuneCore service for cross-platform distribution 5:25 a year's income 5:30 70/30 split 5:44 platform rates table; Pandora and RU-vid pay the lowest 6:12 "Heal Me"

It's nice to hear somebody break down the statistics for Spotify. I kind of understand But this definitely puts it in a better light.

For me this year was "Farewell". When I found it on youtube, my father had recently become non-responsive from a failed cancer treatment, and I watched him pass away. I was so emotionally numb I couldn't even function. Farewell broke the dam for me and left me sobbing for who knows how long. It was cathartic, and vital in my healing journey. I've been a big fan of yours ever since.

Once again, good for you Bernth. It is obvious that you are a very hard worker and dedicated to your love of music. & Kudos on Heal Me

I found you last year with your guitar lessons, but i recently really enjoy your turn you took. Its really inspiring and figuring out i still have a lot to learn

Weekly releases are particularly good for Spotify because of the weekly Release Radar and Discover Weekly playlists. Since you have started releasing songs weekly, your new songs have consistently appeared in my Release Radar playlist every single week.

Your honesty and transparency are really special. I watched as first "contact" your vid on playing a cheap Ibanez guitar on a big show and I liked how you take us with you through the happening out of your perspective. And: Super great playing! 👏🏻

Good for you bro!! That’s a beautiful song as well!!! Nata has an amazing voice!🤘🏻

I had 5 millions streams this year so I already know you made twice as much as me! I will also try to release as many weekly or bi-weekly songs over 2024. At the start of 2023 I released a lot and grew to 120k monthly listeners but I lost a lot this autumn after joining Spotify's new "Discovery Mode" which feels very ironic and sad. Back to focusing on writing one beautiful song at a time :)

Farewell was my favorite by far (and I've listened to the whole of waterworks) because I am hugely empathetic and I can almost feel the guitar trying to hold on as its life slips away...especially effective conceptualization because of the video you made here on RU-vid. You are awesome at all aspects: playing, teaching, creating, producing, etc... You deserve the success you've gained from all of your hard work and drive to this one thing...music.

Really interesting video, thanks for sharing that info with us. Also, the song at the end is beautiful. I love the "Please heal these wounds for me. Be the light that shines through tragedy. So guide me through the dark but beware, I might be too broken to be repaired" lyrics. Really great song and I love the collab with Natauska. 💙

Congratulations, thanks for all your amazing contributions to guitar and sharing your lessons and passion❤

I love this new song!!! You sound Awesome together! 😊

Dude, I followed you first because of your eclectic and humorous music and videos. What I didn't expect was the honesty and transparency from you as a human and an artist. Kudos on being a stand up guy as well as a very talented one. Oh, and your girlfriend has a wonderful voice. Additional collabs are in order. Add: I don't do Spotify, I am old and buy record albums or cd if available, FLAC if I can and mp320 as a last resort. I get new music from RU-vid and my son. But I support what I watch and listen too. Fair is fair. I just listen to what I like, no time for stuff I don't. Not much time left here on this planet.

Well deserved! Nice to see that it actually pays off \m/ rock on!

I love mostly all the songs that you released as they all have some kind of creative element and have some amazing sections. you are literally one of the best content creators on yt for me please keep it going and also come to India some day I will definitely come and watch you live

I was expecting the payout to be less than that tbh. Not bad considering that's only a single revenue stream

Great video! Love your music, listened 2,413 minutes of your music on spotify somehow lol

May your music journey continue onwards and upwards. 😎

Very inspiring, I love your work!

This is so interesting, thank you for sharing this! I wondered why some artists I follow gradually release pretty much every song from a new EP/album as a single. Comparing it to other content like RU-vid videos totally explains it!

Im here to support and enjoy the music bro i glad to know you are getting paid ok money i know it take a lot work but you pay a price for living the dream

I love your work .your ethic and ingenuity awesome my man bernth

Thanks for the insight ! The new track is amazing 🤘

Thanks for the info, and your song new is really good!

My favorite is Water work 👏 Super new song Bernth Your music is very nice and you work a lot behind the scene to push it up every week. Aside this you have to care about the shred guitar community and it's so amazing how you manage those activity! It inspire me to folow your journey as much as I can! Then may be I have a chance to work like this in the future!

Thanks for sharing! Looks like your first year as a full-time musician was a good start. All the best for you in 2024!

Great insight. I’m already taking your advice and releasing the two tracks I have completed that were going to be a four track EP now two two track singles. May even not do an album but keep putting out two track releases.

Congratulations, I'm so glad you're on Spotify btw❤🎸🤘🏻... Oh & Calm is my new favourite, it's Awesome ❤🎸🤘🏻!!!

Happy for you Bernth. Your music has helped me a lot, thank you.

Omg ❤ I remember you saying you were going to do this. Heck yea. Love it, dude.

I found you on RU-vid with Waterworks ❤ . I listen to you on Spotify all the time! Love your music! TY ❤❤❤

Nice song at the end. Thanks for the explanation of how Spotify pays it was interesting

Shout out for the track performed here! Enjoyed the track! Was expecting something metal; loved the different genre.

Hey thanks for being open about this. Not many people are. Super interesting.

Thats very good I'm happy for you Congratulations ....

That was super interesting. Thank you

Thank you for making this video.

Wow that's awesome. Respect. Glad you got paid! Really respect your attitude. I'm a new youtube creator and I've managed to reach audience (not loads😂) by doing exactly as yoh say. You're outreach to people is amazing and I'm glad that the platform.s are rewarding your creative approach. Nice track at the end too

I mean I'm glad you're making a living and your optimism and hustle is refreshing, but if you're making a song a week you're making 52 songs a year. That's 5 albums worth of music per year. That seems super artistically taxing and even as an audience member it's hard to really properly appreciate that much of an output without starting to view it as disposable, even if it's good. Also 42k is a living wage as a solo artist but splitting that amongst a band it's barely a side hustle. I know it's a small piece of various revenue streams and Spotify couldn't function if it was paying out more than it made, but it's hard to see those numbers as a musician and feel good about how it adds up, personally.

Killer track, man!

Thanks for sharing and congrats! Did you do any adverts for your music?

Moin Bernth, very interesting, a very nice information and a very nice song, thanks a lot for sharing, greetings from north germany, harry

The song at the lasttt!!! It’s awesome…..❤️

Nicely done

Thanks for the transparency! I thought that it was going to be significantly less TBH.

Great stuff. You're definitely an inspiration for what a lot of us are doing as well. A couple of questions if you have the time - Why Tunecore over Distrokid, and I believe you have an email list an offer lead magnets like tabs and such - is there anyone you're learning from to give you ideas on how to run the business side of things (some courses or books we should be reading)? Thanks!!!

Lovely song!!

Asking your favorite bernth song and video is like asking if you like pizza. They are all way too d**n good!

Ok that was a beautiful song, both lyrics and music. Actually, that is not a strong enough word but will have to work for this :)

Great video man. What do you think about the effects on music industry, if all bands have to play this game of delivering "content" almost weekly to get some recognition and generate money?

I hate that the album is dying, but i understand why it has to be this way now. You certainly have made the most of it, congrats.

Sehr interessant Danke. Wie findet man heraus in welchen Playlisten man gelistet ist?

That song was amazing. Just like all your other songs. 🤘

As an artist learning to market my stuff this was so helpfull

Long time follower here. Really great to see you succeed! Well done, and thanks for all the hard work. I'll gladly shred with you anytime, lol

Beautiful playing as always! Where can I get tabs for Heal Me? Please

Hi Bernth ! Request permission to use the payouts table at 5:48 to share to others. This is VERY interesting. Thanks man ! Keep up the very good work.

I was referring to the collab. 😂 You guys killed it.

I still shred brought me to your channel:) I still sing it in my head

This is all great that it helps out when it comes to money and exposure for people who need to make a living. But I'd like it known that from a listeners perspective, we want artists to drop a whole album. It's an experience at that point. You can talk about it with friends. "What's your favorite song on the new album?...etc." This new method where artists drop one song at a time isn't as enjoyable and it's sad to see that this is the way things will probably always be from now on. Great video. Thank you for the breakdown.

You were the number one artist on my Spotify wrapped, and I’m not normally a metal type of guy

keep it out dude

Do you have any physical album release? If yes is it available in Japan?

i bet i put abput 7m streams on your spotify lol i love your music so much keep up the great work!!

Fantastic video! The problem with most being negative about streaming is that they are expecting hundreds of 💰💷 for a few thousand streams. I work with lots of artists. It’s very common from artists to think they can just upload a song, sit back and make millions without putting any effort in. Most have never even performed live to even understand how listeners react to music. All choices are made from the “4 wall experience”.

A question from a musician perspective. I would like to make my solo project stand out and be pitched in playlists, creating a stable base on the streaming services. With that being said, would you recommend/prefer sending music to labels or distributing independently?

Bro, How you do it? Weekly songs crazy bro. That will be my goal now. Keep up the good work. Thanks for the info.

Amazing! :)

From watching your stuff I got recommended guitar playing with the WIND !!! You gotta find a wind guitar player and collaborate. its really really cool ! At the right angle wind passing the strings make them sing. so you end up playing along with the wind

Question: I am new to distributing music and I use distrokid to distribute. How can I release one song at a time but compile it into an album. Seems like my options are either release as a group down to a single. Does it matter anymore if it is an album anymore?

reminds me of nightwish (the sound at the end) love it!

The path was my favourite bernth track this year

Will you also release the music in a way to really buy it, as a download or a CD or something? I'm "old", I grew up with vinyl, tapes, CDs, and hate streaming, I want to be able to put my music on some device and listen to it without needing internet.

I was thinking after I watched the video where you filled the guitar with water. Maybe have a special guitar made that Maybe had chambers and would be waterproof...

I confess. 1 million streams was me listening to brainwaves. Thank you Bernth.

Working at one major streaming platform, I can confirm that most of these platforms have to pay ~70% of their revenue to rights holders (and yes I mean revenue, not net benefits, which are negative save for Spotify). The royalty system is based on market shares, so the more shares a label has (through streams of their artists), the bigger the part of the money they get. It's the up to labels to redistribute to their artists according to the contracts they signed with them, not everybody is treated equally there. In the end, low remuneration can be a 2 factor thing: - poor contract with the label - a market saturated with too many (and more to come) artists, resulting in lower shares for everybody There are attempts to remediate to the royalties system for more fairness (user centric / artist centric) but overall it won't make a huge difference.

Have you released any instrumentals on Spotify? If so, are the numbers different? I could look this up but I figure you might have far more to say. Or even do a blind test by anonymously releasing instrumentals to see the difference? I do know that songs are by far more popular. Some of us only do instruments

Didn't Farrell have a billion plays and got a check for 1,000. He got his music pulled. A great lesson to everyone: OWN YOUR MASTERS OR SOMEONE WILL BE YOUR MASTER!

40K is nothing to sneeze at for most of us but thinking that being a viral rockstar amounts to being able to cash for a regular car kinda puts constraints on ones wildest dreams. It's like your dad walks in and put his hand on your shoulder and go "If hookers & blow is your endgame it's time to put down the guitar son".

Thats good coin. 🎉🎉🎉

So ... comparable roughly 8500 discs at $5 a pop (let's call it an even 10k after duplication costs). I suppose the bright side is that streaming payout is potentially more 'continual' in nature than the sale of physical media is / would be.

Holy shit I didn’t know Napster was still a thing

Really interesting to see the statistics and how youtube translates also into the spotify numbers, but 40,000 does really not sound like a lot when compared to the streaming numbers

Respect!

I wonder how much time goes into actual playing and perfecting and discovering music compared to production and social media presence. Please enlighten me. example: 15% actual time playing guitar, 20% music production, 15% video production, 50% social media presence ? Thank you very much.

Heal me is AWESOME brother

Heal Me 👏👏👏💥💫🥳

wow! 40k a year is pretty good, the average yearly income in America is 60k, so not bad at all, thank you so much for the video!

Do you have any suggestions on "pitching" a new song to Spotify editors?

Does anyone know the model of the acoustic he's playing??

Great informative video. I think Spotify should pay you at least ten cents a stream...not less than a penny per stream. Keep up the good work!!

I got extremely confused and thought "no way in hell did you stream 10 million times, even one stream per hour would take like 1000 years" but its nice of you to share revenue, love your music man.

This actually clarified what I was concerned about

Onward and upward 👆⬆️❤

Are you rich Bernth? You should be dude... i see you as a public service to axe wielders! Aka vikings! I appreciate you man! You're an inspiration and I'm a jazz player but fully believe in genre bending to see what can be incorporated into my technique. 👍 & 🛎 here always! Over 50 and massively impressed by your dedication and hard work! Some call that natural talent but I know you worked your arse off to reach your level!

My favorite is "When it rains, it pours"