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  • guinnessaddick
    guinnessaddick Posts: 29,045
    edited December 4
    Off_it said:
    My "listening age" was said to be 76 (which is over 20 years too high, if you're wondering!)

    My 17yo daughter's listening age was 57!!! (which I like to think is because she's acquired my great tastes!)
    My listening age was 20, some 40 years lower than me.


  • SuedeAdidas
    SuedeAdidas Posts: 7,815
    edited December 4


    1, 2 and 4 are me. The other two are MrsSA. 

    Listening age = 69. 
  • Elthamaddick
    Elthamaddick Posts: 15,945
    Off_it said:
    My "listening age" was said to be 76 (which is over 20 years too high, if you're wondering!)

    My 17yo daughter's listening age was 57!!! (which I like to think is because she's acquired my great tastes!)
    Ha - similar here, my listening age is 56 and my 15 year old daughters is 51 (my actual age)
  • cfgs
    cfgs Posts: 11,510
    My listening age is 51, my actual age, unlike your educated ear palates my listening is dominated by heavy rock and metal, with a smattering of Blur and Pulp.
  • KiwiValley
    KiwiValley Posts: 3,408
    51 year old with a listening age of 84 ! (jazz skews!) In better news i have the knees of a 70 year old
  • TelMc32
    TelMc32 Posts: 9,145
    edited December 4
    My last Spotify wrapped as I cancelled my subscription a few weeks ago. Trying different platforms that actually pay the artists a bit better. 

    Bastille really came from a long way back as I managed to get tickets for their gig at The 100 Club a couple of months ago and their joy at playing again made it a brilliant night. 

    P.S. I was 59 at the end of September, so a listening age of 21 is…several years higher than my usual mental age 😉
     
  • CL_Phantom
    CL_Phantom Posts: 5,712



    Surprised again with the roundup.

    Dont think I've listened to the Beatles much.

    That genre is a disgrace though, the 90's Brit rock/ pop playlist has been abused big time this year so comes from that assumedly.

    Top two songs and listening age of 73 (I'm 38) will be the Dad influence, split the classic rock playlist into sub lists with Prog rock seeing the most playtime.
  • GreenWithEnvy
    GreenWithEnvy Posts: 1,857
    edited December 4

  • EugenesAxe
    EugenesAxe Posts: 3,534


    A tangent but thought some of you might be interested in an insight into what earnings Spotify pay artists, here's one track as an example, Streamed 41,000 times and I got £13, the platform actually introduced a threshold whereby they don't pay anything if the total number of streams fails to reach the threshold.
    I'm not a fan.
  • Friend Or Defoe
    Friend Or Defoe Posts: 18,173


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  • EugenesAxe
    EugenesAxe Posts: 3,534
    Friend Or Defoe said:

    Would ya?
  • TelMc32
    TelMc32 Posts: 9,145
    EugenesAxe said:


    A tangent but thought some of you might be interested in an insight into what earnings Spotify pay artists, here's one track as an example, Streamed 41,000 times and I got £13, the platform actually introduced a threshold whereby they don't pay anything if the total number of streams fails to reach the threshold.
    I'm not a fan.
    It’s the reason I’ve just quit the platform @EugenesAxe.  Been asking a few artists what they’d recommend and they all basically said “anything but Spotify. Even Apple Pay us more.”  Heard Quboz was pretty decent, so having a look at that at the moment. Hopefully Spotify do the decent thing and stop ripping artists off if they lose enough subscribers. 
  • Leuth
    Leuth Posts: 23,489
    I wish Bandcamp Wrapped was a thing, would be much more accurate to my habits. But fine,


  • guinnessaddick
    guinnessaddick Posts: 29,045

  • EugenesAxe
    EugenesAxe Posts: 3,534
    TelMc32 said:
    EugenesAxe said:


    A tangent but thought some of you might be interested in an insight into what earnings Spotify pay artists, here's one track as an example, Streamed 41,000 times and I got £13, the platform actually introduced a threshold whereby they don't pay anything if the total number of streams fails to reach the threshold.
    I'm not a fan.
    It’s the reason I’ve just quit the platform @EugenesAxe.  Been asking a few artists what they’d recommend and they all basically said “anything but Spotify. Even Apple Pay us more.”  Heard Quboz was pretty decent, so having a look at that at the moment. Hopefully Spotify do the decent thing and stop ripping artists off if they lose enough subscribers. 
    it's striking a badlance between getting paid properly and using a platform people actually visit, my preference is Apple Music, its roughly double what Spotify pay per stream and obviously it has a lot of users.
  • YTS1978
    YTS1978 Posts: 1,741
    edited December 4
    Rather disappointingly my listening age was my actual age! Just a generic middle aged man I guess! Although my top song was...
  • Off_it
    Off_it Posts: 28,999
    EugenesAxe said:
    TelMc32 said:
    EugenesAxe said:


    A tangent but thought some of you might be interested in an insight into what earnings Spotify pay artists, here's one track as an example, Streamed 41,000 times and I got £13, the platform actually introduced a threshold whereby they don't pay anything if the total number of streams fails to reach the threshold.
    I'm not a fan.
    It’s the reason I’ve just quit the platform @EugenesAxe.  Been asking a few artists what they’d recommend and they all basically said “anything but Spotify. Even Apple Pay us more.”  Heard Quboz was pretty decent, so having a look at that at the moment. Hopefully Spotify do the decent thing and stop ripping artists off if they lose enough subscribers. 
    it's striking a badlance between getting paid properly and using a platform people actually visit, my preference is Apple Music, its roughly double what Spotify pay per stream and obviously it has a lot of users.
    Presumably you don't have to use Spotify though?
  • Off_it
    Off_it Posts: 28,999
    EugenesAxe said:


    A tangent but thought some of you might be interested in an insight into what earnings Spotify pay artists, here's one track as an example, Streamed 41,000 times and I got £13, the platform actually introduced a threshold whereby they don't pay anything if the total number of streams fails to reach the threshold.
    I'm not a fan.
    Don't forget to account for the VAT on that
  • EugenesAxe
    EugenesAxe Posts: 3,534
    Off_it said:
    EugenesAxe said:
    TelMc32 said:
    EugenesAxe said:


    A tangent but thought some of you might be interested in an insight into what earnings Spotify pay artists, here's one track as an example, Streamed 41,000 times and I got £13, the platform actually introduced a threshold whereby they don't pay anything if the total number of streams fails to reach the threshold.
    I'm not a fan.
    It’s the reason I’ve just quit the platform @EugenesAxe.  Been asking a few artists what they’d recommend and they all basically said “anything but Spotify. Even Apple Pay us more.”  Heard Quboz was pretty decent, so having a look at that at the moment. Hopefully Spotify do the decent thing and stop ripping artists off if they lose enough subscribers. 
    it's striking a badlance between getting paid properly and using a platform people actually visit, my preference is Apple Music, its roughly double what Spotify pay per stream and obviously it has a lot of users.
    Presumably you don't have to use Spotify though?
    No I don't actively use it, when a release is uploaded via a distributor Spotify is one of the default streaming platforms it gets added to, this just reminds me why I don't bother meaningfully with it.
  • Leroy Ambrose
    Leroy Ambrose Posts: 14,488
    EugenesAxe said:


    A tangent but thought some of you might be interested in an insight into what earnings Spotify pay artists, here's one track as an example, Streamed 41,000 times and I got £13, the platform actually introduced a threshold whereby they don't pay anything if the total number of streams fails to reach the threshold.
    I'm not a fan.
    I refer the rt. hon. gentleman to my previous contribution on the matter... 



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  • EugenesAxe
    EugenesAxe Posts: 3,534
    yup 
  • Chizz
    Chizz Posts: 28,451
    Daniel Ek, the co-founder and CEO of Spotify is using his profits to build autonomous killer AI hardware, through his German defence company, Helsing.  Imagine the possibilities!  Deadly robots designed to identify enemies and kill them, without bothering with all that time-consuming checking-it's-legal, being-sure-we're-killing-only-the-bad-guys stuff. 
  • KBslittlesis
    KBslittlesis Posts: 8,738

    No great surprises there.
    My listening age is 61, five years older than I am.
    I blame having influential older siblings 😜🤣🤣
  • ValleyGary
    ValleyGary Posts: 38,178
    Nobody cares what music you listen too….
  • rananegra
    rananegra Posts: 3,712
    EugenesAxe said:


    A tangent but thought some of you might be interested in an insight into what earnings Spotify pay artists, here's one track as an example, Streamed 41,000 times and I got £13, the platform actually introduced a threshold whereby they don't pay anything if the total number of streams fails to reach the threshold.
    I'm not a fan.
    Loads of artists I know have pulled off it, not just cos of this but also the killer AI stuff they fund. I kind of want to do the same, but I pay for a family sub and so it's not just me (the kids both have loads of playlists) and in terms of my artistic output, no one listens to it anyway so it's not like I'm going to be noticed making a stand. 

    I have written a song about this, and I'm painfully slow to get things recorded, but will see if Spotify say no (I'm sure they won't care but if they do it will at least get slightly more attention). 
  • EveshamAddick
    EveshamAddick Posts: 7,056

  • MrOneLung
    MrOneLung Posts: 27,071
    Not heard of 70% of the artists listed on here !!
  • EveshamAddick
    EveshamAddick Posts: 7,056
    edited December 5

    More here on quitting Spotify

    https://youtu.be/svJnpYwgo9A

    https://10cities10years.com/2025/10/21/spotify-vs-qobuz/

  • Swindon_Addick
    Swindon_Addick Posts: 1,766
    Well it got my age pretty much exactly right. The top bands though are pretty much just the bands that have more than one track on my go-to, can't-be-bothered-to-think playlist. 

    U2
    Microdisney
    The Alarm
    Tom Robinson Band
    Värttinä

    I was puzzled by The Alarm being on there as they aren't on the playlist and I basically haven't listened to them for years. But it was this year that Mike Peters died so I guess a couple of days playing several albums through just the once caught the attention of the algorithm.
  • church-lane
    church-lane Posts: 944


    Listening age 64. Not too bad seeing I'm 63 later this month.

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