Yeah, Penny Lane was the first song I loved.
It was perfect for a five year old.
They played a major role in my decision to become an LFC fan and I played the red and blue albums to death.
After punk, Lennon was the only one who remained hip and Mull of Kintyre made it impossible to like Macca.
Nowadays the sanctification of Lennon seems silly, and Imagine feels smug and hypocritical.
In short, it’s complicated, but recently I heard Dear Prudence, not considered one of their best, and I was reminded of their brilliance.
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Apparently to make minimum wage an artists needs around 570,000 streams a month.
Spotify are putting up prices by £1 so they are raking in around an extra £276m a month - £3,312,000,000 a year but the artists wont see much if any of it.
Buy the product. Stop streaming.
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do artists NEED to make minimum wage from spotify though?
theres multiple streams of income AND, ultimately, its a bit like football, maybe its right that 99.99 percent of people involved do it for the love.
Same here. My uncle had the single. He had been the assistant manager at the TSP in Penny Lane at the time the single came out, and when he moved on, the staff gave him a copy of the single signed by everyone who worked there.
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Some do.
Not big bands
Brilliant stuff RW.
My Mum was housekeeper for a rich lady who had a jukebox in her house. It was the most magical thing I had ever seen. It had Penny Lane on it, and I drove everyone mad asking for it to be played again and again.
Getting misty eyed now…
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Depends on the regions where your listeners are (can even be less money if it’s poorer countries) and whether or not you have a label/publishing deal (they usually want money too).
If your local Sunday league/pub teams had hundreds of thousands of viewers a month, I bet they’d start asking if they shouldn’t get some money for it. There’s clearly a demand.
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yes but you cant watch your local pub team while you drive to work in your car, go on a jog, or start to wash the dishes…
spotify is an exposure thing. its a vehicle.
in a perfect world, yes maybe they get more money out of every play, but its hardly an injustice.
again, maybe the craft benefits from the majority playing for love. think of how flooded the market would be if you were able to make big bank from just a few thousand plays on a music platform.
i mean, id write a song and just play it on loop in the spare room. bada bing bada bang!
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They have algorithms to filter out if all comes from one IP.
Ironically it’s big artists who have been exposed to pay professional bot farms to hype up their stream numbers.
Your local pub team doesn’t get money, because no one gives a shit.
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Another one from Liverpool’s finest songwriter.
So, these are my most played songs according to Spotify. It’s a surprising list, not that they’re bad tracks, I just feel like I’ve listened to other stuff more. The number of plays is also lower than expected, especially for Hayling, which the Missus got quite obsessed with around June and July.
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Did you try that “music age” thing on it?
I don’t generally use Spotify for music. Mostly it’s podcasts and UK radio programmes. But I do occasionally search for obscure stuff. Lots of Blues and Jazz that I can’t find elsewhere.
It gave me a music listening age of 81. FFS.
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