A message to the Spotify musician The Passionate & Objective Jokerfan (aka Matt Farley)

http://www.onthemedia.org/story/tldr-hundred-songs/

lol: "the most recent album is like my Pet Sounds of poop songs...it's intense, it's beautiful".

I was surprised when he said he made $23,000 last year, considering that he said in this article (from 2007) that he only made enough per month "to buy a pizza, not including a tip". he must make almost all of his money off of Spotify plays and almost none of it off of iTunes purchases (i.e. there are only maybe 5 people in the world who would be willing to spend $0.99 on "Poop Into a Wormhole", but hundreds of thousands of people get hi every weekend and search for "poop" on Spotify). dude comes across less as a canny SEO spammer and more as an intense, earnest hobbyist who won't stop until he's recorded ALL THE SONGS ABOUT EVERYTHING...which doesn't make his music any more listenable, but I admire him for the effort.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5msl69tE9E

only one song about Lucia Pamela? this is an outrage!!!

he must make almost all of his money off of Spotify plays and almost none of it off of iTunes purchases

guess I was wrong about that:

http://noisey.vice.com/en_se/read/youneedtohearthisthis-guy-made-23000-by-releasing-14000-songs-on-itunes-and-spotify

How many Spotify plays did you have last year, and how much did that earn you?

I don't know exactly, but I think it's around 1.3 million streams just on Spotify, which is about $5,000. I also earn a similar rate from other streaming services like Rhapsody.

Do you sell many downloads?

Yes. I still make more of my money from downloads than from streams. But streaming is catching up. It's about 60% from downloads lately.

So how much do you make annually from your music?
I earned $23,500 in 2013 from all my music sales. My music is on every digital music store and people are actually purchasing these songs, not just streaming them.

also lol:

I put the most work into the Toilet Bowl Cleaners albums. The most recent album is called “You Thought We Ran Out of Poop Song Ideas. You Were Wrong”. If you get beyond the fact that I'm singing about poop, you'll notice that the songs are actually good.

That's quite reassuring to hear. A few years ago I had an email correspondence with him and I mentioned that I was disappointed that the then latest Toilet Bowl Cleaners album sounded as phoned-in as some of him other projects, which he ackowledged

my 93-hour Spotify playlist of Motern Media releases

(in the interest of quality control, it excludes all his cut & paste "Happy Birthday [Jared]/[Jeremy]/[Jason]/[James]" songs)

Matt Farley's own playlist (at the bottom of this page) is only 11 hours long — a "greatest hits" of sorts

kind of obsessed with his work as 'The Guy Who Sings Songs about Cities & Towns'

Gangman Style is kinda nice. don't think i need to listen to this ever again tho'
I am glad this guy exists and yes, i too wish I had thought of this first
go with god matt farley

I really like hsi daniel johnston song

I thought of him for some reason

whatta trol

what's his Daniel Johnston song?

I haven't watched any of his other movies but Freaky Farley is one of the best/worst horror films ever made:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FbwB8H5XvZ

er

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FbwB8H5XvZ8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3TQuoOKtdZo

True or false: Matt Farley writes 20 songs a day and has digitally distributed more than 14,000 in six years. We need creative outliers like him and a neutral internet to support them

I came across this the other day and it changed my perspective on what music can be: https://open.spotify.com/album/5f3Hq48zGa6ADfxxgzD2eE?si=VxIu-EaeRGykX5R4Ytxp3A

Cover version of a Matt Farley song me and some friends made in the style of The Modern Lovers / The Yummy Fur
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHEeW-5Nvfc&t=0s&list=UUWlBnszJrJhwWCAHEh6YgmQ&index=12

so easy to make so many songs tehse days- in the past it cost money to record! now its so cheap and then you can publish it all on the werld wibe web

I wish I thought of this
― MUBU gai pan (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, August 6, 2012