Cellist Zoe Keating has posted her "Online Sales & Streaming" numbers

Re:Cellist Zoe Keating has posted her "Online Sales & Stream... by citricsquid on Thursday August 02, 2012 @05:31PM (#4331121)

What I find most interesting is someone with 1.3m Twitter followers is having so little of her music streamed, I assume that this is because the majority of her fans purchase her music? I notice she has a Bandcamp account. I think it would be great to see her Bandcamp sales figures too as a point of reference, and ideally an explanation of how being available on Spotify / Pandora affected her sales figures.

She's also posted some more stats here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AkasqHkVRM1OdEJ...

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Re:Cellist Zoe Keating has posted her "Online Sales & Stream... by bigiain on Thursday August 02, 2012 @09:08PM (#4331971)

$80,000 (net after fees) of downloads/physical sales in six months (without label support, which is pretty impressive to me) - that's presumably something like $120K gross sales (before iTunes/Amazon's 30% cut and credit card fees).

If you attribute _all_ of that to twitter (big assumption!), then it values her twitter followers at ~$0.18/year. I wonder how many twitterers beat that?

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Re:Cellist Zoe Keating has posted her "Online Sales & Stream... by stephengillie on Thursday August 02, 2012 @06:01PM (#4331271)

How many of those followers aren't fans, but:

1. bots

2. People who want to set up a business deal (everyone from major label agents to real estate agents)

3. Random people that follow others in the hopes of gaining more followers

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Re:Cellist Zoe Keating has posted her "Online Sales & Stream... by beatpanda on Thursday August 02, 2012 @06:33PM (#4331413)

Her Bandcamp sales figures are in the spreadsheet.

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Re:Cellist Zoe Keating has posted her "Online Sales & Stream... by citricsquid on Thursday August 02, 2012 @06:43PM (#4331447)

oh, the spreadsheet has changed since posted. Thanks!

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Re:Cellist Zoe Keating has posted her "Online Sales & Stream... by jamesbritt on Thursday August 02, 2012 @06:56PM (#4331507)

Also, there are tabs at the bottom to view different pages of the spreadsheet. (Sorry if I'm saying something obvious; I didn't catch it at first myself.)

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Re:Cellist Zoe Keating has posted her "Online Sales & Stream... by protomyth on Thursday August 02, 2012 @06:38PM (#4331433)

Maybe people who listen to her are more into CDs and buying from iTunes / Amazon?

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Re:Cellist Zoe Keating has posted her "Online Sales & Stream... by bigiain on Thursday August 02, 2012 @08:55PM (#4331922)

FWIW, I've got both her albums and her EP on CD, one of those albums on vinyl as well, and an iTunes copy of the other album (since the CD didn't arrive quickly enough).

I also buy concert tickets at every opportunity: http://www.flickr.com/photos/bigiain/7325677270/

I'm a bit of a fan…

If you've not heard her music (or want to hear more) there's a free (legal) download here: http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/soundquality/sq...

She's a bit of a geek/hacker too - she runs a laptop with Ableton Live, sooperlooper, and a bunch of custom applescripts (which don't always play nice when the laptop sleeps, she sometimes needs to reboot on stage), and she was talking about building some custom microcontroller hardware to give her easier/different control compared to the midi footpedal she's using.

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