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Is SubmitHub Good or Bad for Indie Musicians: Interview with the Founder
The New Music Business with Ari Herstand
How Do You Get That Data?
Spotify doesn't tell us how many listeners there are. So I set up something called mechanical tuk, which is this little thing that Amazon has where you can pay people to do micro tasks like five cents for a task. It would only show the top five playlists, but fill in their top 5 playlists and how many listeners each one had. That actually worked pretty well for the first year or so. And then Spotify got rid of that data. Yeah. But the moment was a three. In fact, there's a, it still exists today. We still do this quite a lot. There's just a direct link. Like here's the link to your CSV because it
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