✨Yet another reason why Decentralized music is the best space for independent artists like me ✨:
One morning I woke up to an unsettling email from my distribuor, "We've been notified by Spotify that they've removed your release due to artificial streaming: 'Never Knew'...We haven't been given any additional information...and have no way to help or appeal Spotify's decision. Sorry for any inconvenience this caused..."
I quickly opened Spotify and sure enough my single "Never Knew" was gone - No clear path for appeal nor an explanation as to what playlist was the culprit.
As an independent artist, I have to use third party playlist curators to promote releases on major streaming platforms. I've only used SubmitHub and Groover, which are supposed to be sanctioned by Spotify because I submit songs for consideration Not for guaranteed placement - spending money just to be heard. But that effort has gotten my music taken down without any information to avoid a possible infringement on these veiled guidelines in the future. I am fortunate that "Never Knew" was also featured on my EP, so it has not been completely removed from the platform, but what does this mean for my singles not apart of a dedicated album? Would they have been erased?
The whole experience would have left me feeling powerless and defeated if I didn't know about #v4vmusic 🙏 Thanks to the #nostr community and #v4v platforms like nostr:nprofile1qqszy58kj62v9fpe98nhuh0q76np4e0r0g0wd44rhth3wphdnyqjfzcpz3mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduq3wamnwvaz7tmjv4kxz7fwvd6hyun9de6zuenedyq3yamnwvaz7tmwdaehgu3wwccxctnfduyrnr5s independent artists, like me, finally have a space to be heard, to grow and have true autonomy over our art. 💚
https://wavlake.com/track/97e522d3-3a49-42cd-a58e-787e27dcaf3d
Damn sorry to read that, fucking sucks. I nearly had an issue with a release due to YT saying there were uncleared samples of which there were none. Fortunately the argument was at the aggregator level but it still caused me a wasted day fighting the case.
I hope you can pick up some traction on Wavlake or Bandcamp.
I no longer put any work on the other streaming platforms, fuck them.
Best of luck x
What england need now is a world war to gee them up a bit.
Look at his dinky little arms! #Pickford #Euro24
Harold Kane and Donald Trump are similar, nothing much happens when the ball hits their head
Very much doubt anyone in the England team can kick a ball as good as Yamal.
i actually don't know, but seems to be this guy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qHkcs3kG44
p good reach on that x post promoting nostr :)
Oh shit, the guy from the shop on Coronation Street. I get it now.
Thomas Matthew Crooks - the 20-year-old shooter that attempted to assassinate President Donald Trump at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania - featured in a BlackRock ad in 2023
https://v.nostr.build/rVwldkSFsHzsXPPb.mp4
So did he support the ETFs or not?
I still don’t know who this Naval guy is, did a web search and just got loads of info about the Navy.
Just Marty writing a very long post the other day, starting withb’to cut a long story short’.
Someone said he didn’t understand the meaning of the phrase, it then got mentioned on RHR and I did a lol…
It’s because some called him our re. cutting a long story short. Now we only get this.
I was using Mullvad’s browser but it started going odd so I’m back to hardened Firefox.
I assume they’re all shit at this point in time.
So are we seeing extra traffic now because X will/wont allow certain posts?
Never underestimate the power of soup and superglue.