{"id":17408,"date":"2014-02-25T08:56:58","date_gmt":"2014-02-25T13:56:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/?p=17408"},"modified":"2014-02-25T08:56:58","modified_gmt":"2014-02-25T13:56:58","slug":"canadian-cellist-and-popular-social-media-phenom-zoe-keating-reveals-earnings-from-spotify","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/2014\/02\/25\/canadian-cellist-and-popular-social-media-phenom-zoe-keating-reveals-earnings-from-spotify\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadian cellist and popular social media phenom, Zo\u00eb Keating reveals earnings from Spotify"},"content":{"rendered":"
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This past year many professional musicians have been harping<\/a> on the dismal royalties paid out by music popular streaming services such as Spotify, Rhapsody, and Pandora. As yet most are unavailable to Canadians, but they are coming.<\/p>\n

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Guelph Ontario born cellist, Zo\u00eb Keating, who self-releases her music rather than work with a label, has made a habit of sharing details of her earnings online. Today Keating released her 2013 payments on her popular twitter page<\/a>, which boosts a humongous\u00a0audience of 1.21 million subscribers:
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You can access the document here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It shows Keating,\u00a0earned $75,341.90 from sales of singles and albums, mostly by download from iTunes, Bandcamp and Amazon.<\/p>\n

This seems like a handsome sum, but when you look at her streaming revenues, they show a very different story: $6,380.82, with $1,764.18 coming from Spotify. This makes Keating\u2019s per-stream payout from Spotify a dismal $0.0044.<\/p>\n

The number seems to contradict those officially quoted by Spotify in December<\/a>, who state that artists were paid between\u00a00.006 and 0.0084. These numbers included payouts to publishers, labels and independent artists like Zo\u00eb\u00a0Keating.<\/p>\n

In an article<\/a> published last year, Keating explained that though the income of a niche artist is a patchwork, streaming is not yet a replacement for digital sales, and to compare the two is a mistake. She adds, \u201cI do not see streaming as a threat to my income\u2026 If people really like my music, I still believe they\u2019ll support it somewhere, somehow.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Besides making waves on twitter, Keating recently gave a controversial interview in the January 2014 issue of The Strad<\/a>, which explains her experience as a young rebellious classical cellist and why she has felt the need to play music on her own terms. Unfortunately the article is not online.<\/p>\n

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