After years of procrastination, I have decided to earn my rights on Spotify. Until now, I’ve only been active on Bandcamp.
I have been releasing music since 2001. My 2nd album from 2003 has been uploaded on Spotify by some guy back in 2006 : 170 000 played tracks overall and an average of 389 monthly listeners, just for that one album (by comparaison, my whole catalogue have been streamed 40 000 time from my Bandcamp page since 2011). I have to admit that this specific album had a sound that has been appreciated by many Boards of Canada fan. But since then, most of my recent work has been a little more on the experimental side.
Anyway, I just claimed my artist page on Spotify and now I’m wondering what’s next. There’s DistroKid (heard weird stories about this one), CDBaby (don’t like the name), The Orchard, Landr, Tunecore…
Each of these companies have different plans and I want to chose wisely.
I’m not so sure whether I should upload my new albums on Spotify or not. Maybe I should start with one or two albums/EP’s and see what happens. I would also like to upload some music on Pandora and eMusic. I don’t know if it worths mentionning, but I happen to live in Canada.
Any tips & advice would be greatly appreciated.