The other day, we showed you a brilliant case study from CD Baby and Canadian musician Braden Lam on how to get your music on official Spotify playlists.

Now, for the next question: how can you use your Spotify presence to make money?

Often, generating revenue from streaming services like Spotify can be a tricky nut to crack. However, contrary to popular belief, there are many ways that an independent artist can use the platform’s popularity to increase their bottom line and ensure that they can keep making the music they care about.

For this, we direct you to Liane Bonin Starr of Songtrust, who outlines the ways a musician can successfully leverage the Spotify platform. As with most components to growing your music career, many of these methods do require you to do much of the legwork yourself, but this provides a blueprint for how to do that successfully.

Check out the full article at this link.