What is Reddit's opinion of Music Gateway?

From 3.5 billion Reddit comments

TikTok pays royalties apparently, so given how many of those vids were made and how popular they are (millions upon millions of views), he's probably made a nice chunk of change from the memes.

https://www.musicgateway.com/blog/how-to/stems-in-music-production-what-are-they-why-are-they-useful Here’s a quick article that prolly articulates better than me, but for tl;dr essentially the groups from your recording like all the drums.

>100 000 through patreon
>
>850 000 through youtube (main account) (going by that guys source)
>
>200 000 more through his youtube musical page. https://www.musicgateway.com/royalties-calculator
>
>300 000 through tik tok source: https://www.musicgateway.com/blog/how-to/does-tiktok-pay-you-for-your-music
>
>2 800 000 through spotify source: https://www.musicgateway.com/royalties-calculator
>
>and lets be incredibly conservative and say 100 000 through all other streaming services.
>
>then we also have to factor in merch sales, let's say 50 000, this one i'm spitballing.
>
>that adds up to, at a decently low estimate, 4.5 million dollars.
>
>I was never wrong.
>
>Now leave me and my boy alone.

https://www.musicgateway.com/royalties-calculator $40042955.4

40 million divided between the record label, publisher and the band is pretty great. The big acts are doing great on Spotiy, it is the mid tier acts who are suffering

just get free u-he and togu shit. there’s a bajillion good articles on a boat-tonne of of free plugins that are badass and in no way perilous to use.

a brief, nonsurgical google search produced this list to me.

So... Here is the best description I've read about what 'pre-saving" is and how it helps an artists. This track won't actually be released on Spotify until April 1st, but pre-saving helps the artists somewhat in the lead up to it's release.:

>Spotify pre-saves are ultimately the digital streaming equivalent of pre-ordering an album. When a Spotify user pre-saves a song or album, when that song or album is released it will automatically appear in their Songs or Albums list.

Similarly, to pre-sales downloads on iTunes and Amazon, Spotify pre-save allows a window of opportunity for fans to save your song/album to their queue before it’s released and allows them to hear it straight away when it is.

It’s pointless sharing about your upcoming release if fans are unable to click to buy, save or hear it. A pre add save acts as an incentive for your audience to do something during your promotional stage on Spotify in the lead up to a release day.

https://www.musicgateway.com/spotify-pre-save

More info: https://blog.sonicbids.com/spotify-pre-saves

The problem I see here is, I don't know who this track is by, and without an artist name to check out their other music I have no idea if this is even New Age Music, and I would never pre-save something random. So this isn't a very effective pre-save campaign.

Well odd they would turn you away. Definitely seems to be the performance rights org for UK. But maybe it’s just that there is no plan for you to get radio play just yet. Are you performing live? Are you getting radio play? How is your music released/published?

If you release music through cdbaby there is a box you can check where they’ll collect royalties for you. I use SOCAN in Canada but must be missing something as I’ve only been paid 1 quarter or a year for the last 15 years or so. I find them fairly useless.

To be honest, I’d focus on just selling the music for now. You’ll know if something you’ve done is taking off. But using something like distrokid or cdbaby puts you in control of getting it pushed out to platforms. I use distrokid and can see stats on what platforms they’re on, how many plays their getting, and that way even if a track gets added to a playlist on Spotify you’re the one receiving payment. Though Spotify pays garbage really.

Cost me initially to sign up for SOCAN. In fact I probably paid more registering with them than I’ve ever received from them.

I’d say use a company to publish, start getting your music circulating and revisit PRS. There’s this article around this

This was something I debated with my coworkers today. The music industry has shifted enormously since most of these artists came into the business. In their day, it was about making good music and selling records. Today, it's about "branding" and the music comes second. Look at the Travis Scott McDonald's Meal for example, that was a 20 Million dollar deal which got sold to people who probably had no idea who he was before then. To earn that same 20 million from streaming, your music would have to be streamed roughly 5 Trillion times (used this stream estimator for that).

That's why you see Travis Scott McDonald's Meals, Ozzy Osborne making bat NFTs and Lil Yachty Reeces Puffs, the money isn't in the music anymore, it's in the brand. These older artists are having a harder time adjusting...except Ozzy

Spotify has about 32% of the market, Apple 16, and Amazon 13

Amazon and Tidal pay better, but it's probably not enough to make a difference unless you're getting hundreds of thousands of streams. According to this, you get $400 from Spotify for 100,000 streams, $500 from Apple, and $1200 from tidal.

Well a place I can think of to "submit" your songs would be to the copyright office. From there you can consider working with a publishing company.

https://www.musicgateway.com/blog/how-to/the-best-music-publishing-companies-of-2020-how-to-pick-one

I wouldn't presume Final Cut has that kind of audio processing built-in, but you can pitch sounds down in GarageBand for instance. Bring the sound file to the timeline, select it, and use the transpose function. Quality may vary, GarageBand isn't as sophisticated as Ableton Live (that I'm using).

Dry (opposed to wet) just means that you turn the effect down and let more of the original track through. https://www.musicgateway.com/blog/how-to/reverb#:\~:text=Dry%20vs%20Wet,will%20be%20in%20the%20mix.

When you do, check out the Am blues scale as labeled "Blues scale pattern 1" here. It's just the pentatonic with two extra notes (the "blue" notes).

That covers about half the history of rock and roll right there.

Which part? If you mean Spotify paying fuck all there are calculators that let you see how much money you'd get from a stream. A million streams on Spotify only earns you $4000, if you aren't a charting band you probably won't even get a million streams even if you have thousands of fans (say you release a 10 track album, you'd need 100,000 plays to hit a million streams) so you'll be relying on touring and merch to make your money. Meanwhile pre-Spotify selling just 400 albums at $10 would have made you $4000. If you mean the new record deals being bullshit then they aren't, they're called 360 deals and they're very much the norm now (after all why would a record label bother signing an indie band and having to put all the work into recorded an album, promoted it etc if it's only go to net them a few thousand in revenue?).

I have no knowledge of the music industry so I just Googled this royalty calculator based off 20k streams and this is about how much she would make: https://www.musicgateway.com/royalties-calculator

Assuming she’s getting 100% of royalties. Obviously there will definitely be uptick after this ep

I would suggest searching Google for a beginners guide to mixing music. Here's one I found...

https://www.musicgateway.com/blog/how-to/mixing-music

But any one should at least outline the basic steps and processors that are needed. And it takes practice to get good at it. Mixing is fun! Good luck!

Last I heard, cinemas make most of their profits through food/snacks. 60% of each ticket goes to the distributor

The thing is, you're competing with music marketing companies that handle music promotion on an industrial level, and (probably) have much larger promotion budgets and connections than you do. You're also assuming that your music is better than 95% of all the other tracks available to global listeners in that vast ocean of content. Let's say that you really have written something great, it's professionally mixed and mastered, and that you have $50,000 going spare to promote it. Why are you even bothering with Instagram? You should be using data analytics to discover what platforms your audience frequent, and then start a major marketing campaign on that platform with links to your personal artist platform so you can maximise the impact of your release and tie it to a greater body of work.

The problem with Instagram is that most IG users are in their 20's or 30's (https://www.statista.com/statistics/325587/instagram-global-age-group/). That sector do not tend to invest highly in music directly. They are more into live music and experiences. They might be Spotify users but you won't get much money from that platform. If you want to sell your tracks directly to listeners, then you're looking at the 14-24 demographic. And that means TikTok or Snapchat.

https://www.musicgateway.com/blog/how-to/how-is-music-marketed-to-different-age-groups

Very nice and good voice and tune.

I didn't really here a contrast bridge so it was pretty much the same all the way through the song.

Consider a bridge with different chords that keeps it from being monotonous.

"A bridge is the section of a song that provides contrast, yet falls in the same context of the song. It is also known as a passage that serves as a link between sections of the song. For example, it can be the connection between the 2nd chorus and the 3rd verse in a song."

https://www.musicgateway.com/blog/how-to/what-is-a-bridge-in-a-song#:~:text=A%20bridge%20is%20the%20section,rd%20verse%20in%20a%20song.

I like your style and definitely keep working it!

Here a website to calculate the earning

https://www.musicgateway.com/royalties-calculator

And here is an article from business insider stating the same rate

"Spotify generally pays between $.003 and $.005 per stream, meaning you'll need about 250 streams to make a dollar"

https://www.businessinsider.com/how-much-does-spotify-pay-per-stream

Ohh good question! Autotune is a must (I use the free gsnap plugin), and a delay or reverb effect, and compression (OTT or multiband compression always works best imo). List of free autotone here <3

https://www.musicgateway.com/blog/how-to/the-best-free-autotune-plugins-of-2020-reviewed

according to: https://www.musicgateway.com/royalties-calculator

he would have made £3.44 Million; provided he got 100% of the royalties. Really it should be anywhere from 2-3.5 million, as the rates vary a lot/

“Essentially, music charts are calculated electronically, whilst also involving human elements. With charts based solely on what is ‘trending’, or popular on social media – there are so many different charts with unique calculations and factors. Artists who want to jump into the music charts will have to work hard from the beginning.” They take into account, downloads, streams, YouTube and purchases to calculate how much they are trending - this is a fancy way of saying, if it’s chatting, its popular - maybe only in that genre but saying I think pop country is good because I listen to what is trending is by definition a popular opinion. - https://www.musicgateway.com/blog/how-to/the-complete-guide-to-music-charts

Hey, know offense but isnt 63k in streaming revenue only a few hundred dollars? via https://www.musicgateway.com/royalties-calculator Payout rates are notoriously low but maybe I'm missing something. How'd you get that number?

You can follow the process directly through YouTube. The requirements to qualify for an artist channel are; 1. Have your own YouTube channel which you operate 2. Have a topic channel (Youtube automatically generates this) 3. Have at least 3 official releases This article should help https://www.musicgateway.com/blog/how-to/youtube-for-artists-setting-up-and-optimising-your-official-channel

There's a number of advantages to having an official artist channel, check out this article, it offers some useful tips https://www.musicgateway.com/blog/how-to/youtube-for-artists-setting-up-and-optimising-your-official-channel

Interesting article... I don’t know if you are into songwriting but I’ve written an article about melody writing.

Take a look if you’re interested:

https://www.musicgateway.com/blog/how-to/topline-writers-definition-how-to-start-toplining

You can follow this guide

How to Build the Best PC for Music Production and Audio Editing

https://www.logicalincrements.com/articles/build-pc-music-production-audio-daw

Build The Best Computer For Music Production At The Lowest Cost

https://www.musicgateway.com/blog/how-to/build-the-best-computer-for-music-production-at-the-lowest-cost

Building a Fast Windows PC that Can Handle Music Production Software and DAWs

https://www.guitarchalk.com/building-windows-pc-music-production/