Recently, Spotify changed its rules so that only tracks with over 1,000 plays per year will count toward remuneration. This poses a significant challenge for many small independent artists. As far as I know, other major streaming services do not enforce a 1,000 stream minimum. However, their payouts are equally insufficient, and I cannot support any of them.

Even though I do not endorse Spotify, my idea is that if I can get at least 1,000 people to commit to streaming one of my complete albums on Spotify once per month, meeting this 1,000-play minimum should be achievable for most albums in my catalogue. If you are already a Spotify user, this should be relatively easy. Please do not feel pressured to support this effort if you are not already a Spotify subscriber.

If you want to help me directly, you can consider buying and streaming music on Bandcamp, or even become a VIP subscriber there.

Please sign up here if you are interested in supporting this Spotify experiment. You will receive one email at the beginning of every month with a reminder/recommendation for streaming an album. In the meantime you can start by streaming the playlist below. Thank you for your support.

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