What does the typical professional musician earn in streaming royalties? Does spending a ton of money on mixing and mastering boost the likelihood of popularity on streaming platforms? What about music videos, social media ads, and publicists? What separates the talented-and-popular from the talented-and-obscure on these platforms?
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The charts below represent information gleaned from 2.4 million streams across 29 different platforms from 40 artists/groups. For more on the background and data set, go here.
What's immediately clear is that Spotify dominates the field, capturing 71% of the … Continue Reading ››
Discussions about the music business almost always devolve into anecdotes and opinions, and I think it's fair to say that most musicians make their moves based on some combination of conventional wisdom, gut feeling, impulse, and the stand-out successes and failures experienced by a few of their peers. In the midst of the … Continue Reading ››
Efraim Trujillo - saxophone
Michiel Stekelenburg - guitar
Damian Erskine - bass
Tarik Abouzied - drums
Recorded in Holland in October 2018
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"Baba" recorded live at Tula's Jazz Club Seattle September 13, 2019
RL Heyer - gtr
Tarik Abouzied - drums
Damian Erskine - bass
Tim Kennedy - keys
Jory Tindall - tenor
Michael Van Bebber - trumpet