Do NOT Buy Streams — Payola vs Playola

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Do not buy streams! Repeat after me. Do not buy streams!

This is something I will not stop talking about. I don’t want to see artists risk their music being taken down, their distributor or label breaking up with them, or even worse, giving up on music all together. It is not a fast track to success, it will actually harm you long term.

There’s so much more I could say but I needed to get this off my chest. Please, do not buy streams! Thanks for hearing me out and please spread the word, protect your fellow artists and friends.

Video description (acccessiblity for those with vision impairments): A white male in his 30’s wearing a t-shirt that says “practice safe sandwiching”. Standing at a desk with a boom mic near his face and vinyl records plus a fake fiddle leaf fig plant with toy koalas in the background. Please note. I am making every effort to ensure my content is accessible to as many people as possible. That is why I include closed captions and a video description. If there’s something I can do to make my content even more accessible please let me know. Thank you. Make some noise in the comments if there’s something I missed, and if you know another artist that could benefit, please tag or share this with them!

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