The war between publishers, writers, Music Streaming Services, record labels and everybody else in between is not going to stop any time soon. And there's lawsuits left and right being put forth every single day for every side to try to take more of the streaming dollars.  The music business worldwide page that I follow talks about a gentleman named David Israelite. President and CEO of the National Music Publishers Association, who wrote an outbid recently about highlighting how these Music Streaming Services make money. How much money they take from licensing the music, and how everything is divvied up...

So since Spotify shut down all those songs through distrokid apparently it's up to a million songs right now and I put that video out yesterday. I've been getting a lot of questions about, so how do you achieve Spotify Growth properly so you don't get dinged by using, you know, bad third party playlists with fake streams that are going to shut you down. So what's up, guys? My name is Matej, always music biz daily. Another day for that. But let's talk about how to really grow your Spotify account properly. Right? And one thing I want to, you know,...

This is major news directly from Billboard.com. They're going to now start incorporating Facebook video streams or music videos into the Billboard chart rankings. T hey will start taking the streams that you're getting on official music, video releases on your Facebook pages. It has to be a business page, not a personal page. All those views will be incorporated into the tracking, to basically put your songs on the Billboard charts eventually. They started doing YouTube views a year and a half ago or so, they're obviously doing streams. They're still doing physical sales, vinyl sales or that type...

So Spotify in 2020 lost the equivalent of two point two million dollars per day, in marketing costs over a billion for the whole year. And they had a bigger loss overall for the company than they did in 2019. But their stock price still tripled in 2020 during the pandemic. For all the YouTube watchers, thank you so much for watching. Is your first time watching, please hit the subscribe button, hit that notification button. Let me know in the comments what you think about this particular topic that I'm about to break down. Obviously, you have to watch...

I don't know how Jay-Z does it, but this man is a great businessman. Always seems to come out on top, and he does it again by square purchasing Tidal or a majority stake in Tidal for two hundred ninety seven million dollars. So all my YouTube viewers, thanks so much for watching my videos. Please subscribe to the channel. Hit the notification icon as well so you can get my daily videos on various music industry or business topics. If you like this one comment. Let me know what you like about it or what you don't like about...

So when is it actually beneficial to use fake Spotify Stream Bots or plays? I'm going to play a little bit of devil's advocate today, guys, and show you that every strategy has its place. For independent artists, you should definitely never use fake Spotify Stream Bot or plays. But again, let me tell you when possibly you could use it and when people clearly do use it.  You guys probably missed my live class and my accelerator yesterday talking about how to properly scale Spotify accounts, Apple Music growth, Amazon music, Tidal, you name it. Right? But Spotify has...