Hello there! So I asked this question in a comment on one of Andrew's videos but I thought posting it here could open up a conversation.
It seems to me that the gateway into actually benefiting from Spotify's massive audience is to first get picked up by Release Radar. You know, get some of that sweet, sweet algorithmic traffic bump. Unfortunately, this may be harder than I had hoped. For my release last week, I pumped in some Facebook ad traffic for about 30 streams a day. This is just the best I could do with limited budget, some early mistakes in ad manager, and no real following yet. Despite that, the save rate is great at nearly 45%, 15 new followers on Spotify, and about a 2.0 listener to stream rate. So people like the song, but Friday rolled around and release radar has yet to give us any love. I confirmed this by checking the stats here today - algorithmic streams are at only 2%, no release radar plays.
So my question is this: Is there a stream volume threshold to get on Release Radar? If so, where do you approximate it to be? Or could this be from other factors like skip rate or some other hidden variable? In one video, Andrew showed he had over 3000 streams for a track by day 7, and it got picked up by Spotify's release radar. Just trying to get an idea so that next release I can plan accordingly and not take out a second mortgage to pay for a huge ad budget.
Thanks in advance!
Band's Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/0a83...QEm5os1ZzDkiOg
It seems to me that the gateway into actually benefiting from Spotify's massive audience is to first get picked up by Release Radar. You know, get some of that sweet, sweet algorithmic traffic bump. Unfortunately, this may be harder than I had hoped. For my release last week, I pumped in some Facebook ad traffic for about 30 streams a day. This is just the best I could do with limited budget, some early mistakes in ad manager, and no real following yet. Despite that, the save rate is great at nearly 45%, 15 new followers on Spotify, and about a 2.0 listener to stream rate. So people like the song, but Friday rolled around and release radar has yet to give us any love. I confirmed this by checking the stats here today - algorithmic streams are at only 2%, no release radar plays.
So my question is this: Is there a stream volume threshold to get on Release Radar? If so, where do you approximate it to be? Or could this be from other factors like skip rate or some other hidden variable? In one video, Andrew showed he had over 3000 streams for a track by day 7, and it got picked up by Spotify's release radar. Just trying to get an idea so that next release I can plan accordingly and not take out a second mortgage to pay for a huge ad budget.
Thanks in advance!
Band's Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/0a83...QEm5os1ZzDkiOg
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