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Re: Watcha Been Listening To?
« Reply #240 on: June 14, 2014, 11:38:44 am »
I should find some portal 2 music and convince my parents to let me play it.

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Re: Watcha Been Listening To?
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Re: Watcha Been Listening To?
« Reply #242 on: June 15, 2014, 07:26:44 am »
Songs to test by. woooo.
But I already linked that one, Eiyeron. You should read previous pages :P
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Re: Watcha Been Listening To?
« Reply #243 on: June 15, 2014, 07:41:03 am »
Mostly Equestrian Revolution I, II and III and the Pony Way + DJ Omnimaga.

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Re: Watcha Been Listening To?
« Reply #244 on: June 15, 2014, 12:07:19 pm »
Is that why my listening stats skyrocketed last week during about two days on Bandcamp? :P

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Re: Watcha Been Listening To?
« Reply #245 on: June 15, 2014, 01:27:36 pm »
some chiptune these days, sometimes DJ_O on youtube.
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Re: Watcha Been Listening To?
« Reply #246 on: June 15, 2014, 01:36:19 pm »
Necroing doesn't exist on youtube :P But yeah, DJ's music is nice.
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Re: Watcha Been Listening To?
« Reply #247 on: June 15, 2014, 01:38:56 pm »
Necroing doesn't exist on youtube :P But yeah, DJ's music is nice.
I know, I love calling things necro and/or all the terms from forums. habit

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Re: Watcha Been Listening To?
« Reply #248 on: June 15, 2014, 03:09:51 pm »
Is that why my listening stats skyrocketed last week during about two days on Bandcamp? :P
Nope, I listen to it on Spotify. Is it possible that you add AKoO and Unfinished there please ?

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Re: Watcha Been Listening To?
« Reply #249 on: June 15, 2014, 10:08:55 pm »
Is that why my listening stats skyrocketed last week during about two days on Bandcamp? :P
Nope, I listen to it on Spotify. Is it possible that you add AKoO and Unfinished there please ?

-Tales of the Knight of the Moon: USD$14.95
-A Decade of Magic Hardcore: USD$224.96
-A Decade of Omni Dance: USD$36.27

Those are the sales and streaming revenues for the period ranging from June 2013 to May 2014 that I have gotten from each of my distributed albums on iTunes, Spotify, Pandora, Zune and over 20 other stores. It costs $34.95 per album per year to keep them online. Given that my first metal album can't even get close to cover those costs, I doubt I'll put a second metal album on Spotify/iTunes/etc, let alone a single.

That said, since the happy hardcore album offsets any loss I get from other albums and that I also get other money from the free Bandcamp service, I guess I might be fine, but that's still over 10% of my sales that would go away in covering AKoO's distributing costs. Here are my June 2013-May 2014 sales on Bandcamp btw in Canadian dollars:

-TotKotM: CAD$9.90
-AKoO: CAD$55.44
-Unfinished: CAD$5.00
-A Decade of Magic Hardcore: CAD$15.92
-A Decade of Omni Dance: CAD$16.02

Basically, even with Bandcamp included, TotKotM isn't even making the cut. AKoO only sold so much because it just came out last Winter. Now it isn't selling so much anymore (the last Bandcamp copy sold was in March), but it has the highest listen rate overall.

All profits used to go to Omnimaga contest/hosting donations until about a year ago back when Omni hosting costed $85 per month, but nowadays it mainly covers a few metal concert ticket and video game purchases.
If AKoO ever makes it to iTunes, it will be combined with Unfinished and another single.
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Re: Watcha Been Listening To?
« Reply #250 on: June 15, 2014, 10:10:23 pm »
I DIDN'T EVEN KNOW I NEEDED THIS




(Seriously, go listen to it. NOW.)
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Re: Watcha Been Listening To?
« Reply #251 on: June 16, 2014, 06:18:18 am »
Is that why my listening stats skyrocketed last week during about two days on Bandcamp? :P
Nope, I listen to it on Spotify. Is it possible that you add AKoO and Unfinished there please ?

-Tales of the Knight of the Moon: USD$14.95
-A Decade of Magic Hardcore: USD$224.96
-A Decade of Omni Dance: USD$36.27

Those are the sales and streaming revenues for the period ranging from June 2013 to May 2014 that I have gotten from each of my distributed albums on iTunes, Spotify, Pandora, Zune and over 20 other stores. It costs $34.95 per album per year to keep them online. Given that my first metal album can't even get close to cover those costs, I doubt I'll put a second metal album on Spotify/iTunes/etc, let alone a single.

That said, since the happy hardcore album offsets any loss I get from other albums and that I also get other money from the free Bandcamp service, I guess I might be fine, but that's still over 10% of my sales that would go away in covering AKoO's distributing costs. Here are my June 2013-May 2014 sales on Bandcamp btw in Canadian dollars:

-TotKotM: CAD$9.90
-AKoO: CAD$55.44
-Unfinished: CAD$5.00
-A Decade of Magic Hardcore: CAD$15.92
-A Decade of Omni Dance: CAD$16.02

Basically, even with Bandcamp included, TotKotM isn't even making the cut. AKoO only sold so much because it just came out last Winter. Now it isn't selling so much anymore (the last Bandcamp copy sold was in March), but it has the highest listen rate overall.

All profits used to go to Omnimaga contest/hosting donations until about a year ago back when Omni hosting costed $85 per month, but nowadays it mainly covers a few metal concert ticket and video game purchases.
If AKoO ever makes it to iTunes, it will be combined with Unfinished and another single.
I don't really care about anything else than bandcamp and spotify. :P I understand though.

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Re: Watcha Been Listening To?
« Reply #252 on: June 16, 2014, 08:26:55 am »
Sorry I didn't have time to buy AKoO yet :( I should, though. It's awesome.
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Re: Watcha Been Listening To?
« Reply #253 on: June 16, 2014, 09:10:44 am »
I'd love to buy them too, but sadly I can't.

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Re: Watcha Been Listening To?
« Reply #254 on: June 16, 2014, 11:52:58 am »
Yeah actually the issue is that while Bandcamp is free and only take 15% of the sales, everything from music distributors is bundled together and isn't free, so you really have to think more than twice before submitting an album. If it sells really poorly and you want to remove it there are fees. Here's the list of stores and streaming services it gets submitted to:

7 Digital, Amazon MP3, Aspiro, Deezer, eMusic, Google Play, Guvera, iLike, iTunes, La Curacao, Last.fm, Medianet, MOG, Myspace Music, Myxer, Napster, Nielsen Soundscan, Pasito Tunes, playlist.com, Rhapsody, Simfy, Slacker, Spotify, Synacor, Thumbplay OTA, Virgin Mega and Zune (Musiwave)

Also you don't get any control on submitted stuff, so if you made a mistake or want to add bonus tracks you can't. Also most of those stores takes a revenue share that is larger than on Bandcamp (although since my albums are more expensive there it offsets that). Also, another sucky part is that only two of those services are available in Canada (iTunes and Google Play).
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