Thoughts On Spotify And The Playlist.

 

Firstly, I'd like to apologise for the lack of Reviews this week, It is simply down to Bonfire Night being this week in the UK. Fireworks have been going off all week and we have a five year old Lurcher who is petrified of the noise. It has meant that our evenings have been dedicated to making him feel safe and he rightly needs constant attention. So typing up Reviews has been a no no. Tonight has been the worse night so far and it is 3 days since Bonfire Night passed.

There are loads of Reviews to come. On Friday alone, there were eight great releases and these and others will all be posted next week. I may go early with Monday's Listening To This Week tomorrow night, it the noise continues and hope that will be an end to all the unnecessary bangs.

The main reason for this post is about Spotify and Listening To This Week. We've trialled it as a secondary playlist for most of this year. I am Anti Spotify, great music goes down a big hole and the artists earn nothing from it. It was simply introduced because of a demand from artists despite our negative thoughts and we are about artists and the music.So, it has been decided to end the Spotify version. 

However, its use by us and our thoughts on its general uselessness have made the decision for it to go. There is no doubt that there is a certain popularity with the Spotify version. But that does not make up for our thoughts on how it treats musicians for their art. I don't use Spotify for any other reason than porting LTTW to that format. I don't listen to music via it and don't like the ways that members have to join to listen to the music on it, hence the reason for not embedding Spotify on IDHAS.

So the decision to end the Spotify Playlist has been made. It will end as soon as possible. It will be given a couple of weeks because there are submissions in that the artists will expect to be on Spotify. However, all future submissions will not be put on Spotify and this will be made clear to artists. This is particularly relevant for artists that who only send us Spotify links.

In future, ant PR, label or artist will be gently reminded that we don't do Spotify if only a Spotify link is sent. We will not listen to any Spotify link. If submitters continually send Spotify links after we have mentioned this a couple of times, submissions will be deleted without reply.

It is felt that the main success of I Don't Hear A Single is from our reputation and by word of mouth of followers and peers. This is what opens doors. We will never make artists massive, but we do get their music to other listeners which aids their growth. IDHAS is about New Music and Spotify isn't interested in the slightest about that.

I hope you understand our reasoning.

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