{"id":4170,"date":"2011-07-20T23:27:59","date_gmt":"2011-07-20T22:27:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ewanspence.com\/blog\/?p=4170"},"modified":"2011-07-20T23:28:43","modified_gmt":"2011-07-20T22:28:43","slug":"spotify-is-no-friend-of-the-independent-musician","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/2011\/07\/spotify-is-no-friend-of-the-independent-musician\/","title":{"rendered":"Spotify is no friend of the independent musician"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/matthewebel.com\/2011\/07\/20\/spotify-let-the-money-pour-in\/\">Matthew Ebel<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>If 10,000 people buy a track from <a href=\"http:\/\/matthewebel.com\/itunes\">iTunes<\/a>, I can pay off my credit cards and keep making music. If 10,000 people listen to a track on Spotify, I earn $13 and change.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Spotify may have spent all their effort on the US launch to woo the big labels, but I&#8217;m more concerned about how much of an impact this will have on smaller bands and individuals. I doubt U2 would notice the impact of Spotify either way, but fifty album sales can have a noticeable effect on the indie musicians. Support good music, don&#8217;t just stream Spotify forever, <strong>go buy the album<\/strong>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matthew Ebel: If 10,000 people buy a track from iTunes, I can pay off my credit cards and keep making music. If 10,000 people listen to a track on Spotify, I earn $13 and change. Spotify may have spent all their effort on the US launch to woo the big labels, but I&#8217;m more concerned about how much of an impact this will have on smaller bands and individuals. I doubt U2 would notice the impact of Spotify either way, but fifty album sales can have a noticeable effect on the indie musicians. Support good music, don&#8217;t just stream Spotify<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[27,25,52],"tags":[2577,1535,808],"class_list":["post-4170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-digital-music","category-link-log","category-web-2point0","tag-income","tag-matthew-ebel","tag-spotify"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p58Gl0-15g","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4170\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}