One of the most important questions for musicians is how should they release their music? This is especially true in the digital age of the internet. There are many online music stores that allow you to sell your music in digital or physical formats. However, music streaming websites are gaining significant popularity.

Artists have the option to submit their music to streaming music services like Spotify, so people can search for it and stream it instantly. Every stream they receive via services like Last.FM and Spotify is actually paid to the artist. The actual amount is so minuscule that it’s negligible, however, and the real value in getting your music on streaming sites is for increased exposure. Spotify streams kopen

We’ll be discussing Spotify, a streaming service that has been around for a while and is very popular in Europe. However, it has just recently become available in America.

The benefits of Spotify for an artist are aplenty. It’s a HUGE up and coming streaming site which more and more people are likely to begin using as time goes by and it gains more exposure and notoriety considering how much music can be found and streamed for free through it. This is one source of exposure which you cannot afford to pass up given how many people are already using it and who will use it.

The actual cut which you get per stream as I mentioned earlier is very negligible. You earn less than a tenth of a cent per play, and you’d need millions and millions of streams of your songs before you started to see income in the hundreds or thousands of dollars unfortunately.

Unless you’re signed to a major label where you’ve got people working to get your music on streaming sites like Spotify for you, you’ll have to do it yourself. It’s easy to do this for only $49.99. Tunecore, which I highly recommend, can upload your album to Spotify and all other streaming sites. This gets your album on online streaming sites like Spotify but at the same time it gets it in actual digital music stores for purchase like iTunes.

Again, it’s all about exposure as well as making your music as readily available to your fans as possible wherever they are and through whatever music services they feel comfortable using and frequent, and Tunecore does this for you with a few clicks of your mouse. Streams kopen spotify

BandCamp is the best place for independent artists to sell their music right now. You can earn between 85-90% (minus the Paypal transaction fee) for every penny you make from music sales. BandCamp only takes an industry-leading 10-15% for each transaction.