Play 30 seconds of a song to get Spotify to pay artists more
A new site piggybacks off of the music streaming service to get as much revenue for musicians as possible.
Taylor Swift won the war with Apple Music, but not all music-streaming services are equal. The Bad Blood beauty still isn’t on Spotify, though the musicians who are being streamed can get a bit more hope, and money, thanks to Eternify.
Eternify is a website that lets you play anything from Spotify’s streaming catalog in 30-second loops. No, this isn’t just a way to annoy your coworkers. It’s like a cheat code to score pay-per-stream revenue for your favorite artists. It’s easier than typing Rosebud over and over, and each 30-second blip could generate $0.005 for the artist.
Spotify has been scammed before. According to The Verge, indie band Vulfpeck released an album named Sleepify last year that featured only silent tracks. Fans were told to stream the album on repeat while they slept so that the band could fun a tour from the revenue. They made just under $20,000 before Spotify caught on, Billboard reported.
Eternify is the brainchild of another band, Ohm & Sport.
“We’re launching Eternify in the wake of numerous false promises of a better future for streaming: not a single one of these announcements or apparent victories have had any meaningful impact on the vast number of small artists on whom these services depend,’’ the band said in a statement to The Verge.
The $0.005 revenue per 30-second stream doesn’t sound like much, but it is a win that comes with the added bonus of bugging your desk mate with just the first jazzy seconds of “Mambo No. 5’’ over and over. Or you could just keep it on mute.
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