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# Zoe Keating Shares Spotify, Streaming Earnings 2018
- URL: https://www.hypebot.com/zoe-keating-shares-her-2018-spotify-earnings/
- Published: 2018-12-18T11:58:17.000Z
- Updated: 2018-12-18T11:58:17.000Z
- Description: Cellist and composer Zoe Keating has won legions of fans with recordings and performances that use live sampling to create a rhythmically and sonically dense, almost otherworldly sound. To her. Continue reading [https://www.hypebot.com/hypebot/2018/12/zoe-keating-shares-her-2018-spotify-earnings.htm
- Author: Bruce Houghton
- Tags: DIY Advice & Tips, Indie Music, Music Business, Streaming, Amazon, Apple, Apple Music, cello, DIY, DIY musicians, Google, indie, music, music industry, Music Tech, musician, musicians, Pandora, Spotify, streaming, YouTube, Zoe Keating, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-01-21 10:00

[![image from images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com](https://hypebot.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451b36c69e2022ad3a82480200d-200wi "image from images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com")](https://hypebot.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451b36c69e2022ad3a82480200d-popup?ref=hypebot.com)Cellist and composer [Zoe Keating](https://music.zoekeating.com/?ref=hypebot.com) has won legions of fans with recordings and performances that use live sampling to create a rhythmically and sonically dense, almost otherworldly sound. To her fellow independent artists, she's also an inspiration and a thought leader.

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[Snowmelt (EP) by Zoe Keating](http://music.zoekeating.com/album/snowmelt-ep?ref=hypebot.com)

The centerpiece of Zoe Keating's artist advocacy is the much anticipated annual release of her Spotify and other streaming data, including earnings. 'Highlights' of her 2018 report range from 2.25 million streams on Spotify netting her $12,231 to a $15 check from YouTube Music and a shoutout to BandcampAs a truly independent self-recorded, self-released and self-published artist, Keating's earnings offer a snapshot devoid of the complex deals and splits that cloud the income analysis of many of the other artists that randomly share their streaming stats.This year, Keating announced her earnings to her [990,000 Twitter followers](%20live electronic sampling and repetition in order to layer the sound of her cello, creating rhythmically dense musical structures). 

> More about my streaming year:  
> 1,448,186 Pandora listens $2,818  
> 127,313 Amazon Prime $427  
> 62,426 Amazon Music Service $716  
> 3,936 Youtube Music $15  
> 3,443 Tidal $47  
> 673,000 Apple Music streams – amount, beats me. Anyone know how to tease that out of obtuse iTunes Connect reports? [https://t.co/XZMGa15RK7](https://t.co/XZMGa15RK7?ref=hypebot.com)  
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> — Zoe Keating (@zoecello) [December 17, 2018](https://twitter.com/zoecello/status/1074704730750967809?ref%5Fsrc=twsrc%5Etfw&ref=hypebot.com)

> And… a huge THANK YOU to the many, many of you who have bought albums, come to concerts, told your friends, licensed my music and hired me. I bow to you. [https://t.co/XZMGa15RK7](https://t.co/XZMGa15RK7?ref=hypebot.com)  
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> — Zoe Keating (@zoecello) [December 15, 2018](https://twitter.com/zoecello/status/1073758872777695232?ref%5Fsrc=twsrc%5Etfw&ref=hypebot.com)

> Absolutely yes! I get to keep 90% of the funds and you can pay what you want. I love [@bandcamp](https://twitter.com/Bandcamp?ref%5Fsrc=twsrc%5Etfw&ref=hypebot.com). [https://t.co/dBRF1F8Yyt](https://t.co/dBRF1F8Yyt?ref=hypebot.com)  
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> — Zoe Keating (@zoecello) [December 18, 2018](https://twitter.com/zoecello/status/1075039905665961984?ref%5Fsrc=twsrc%5Etfw&ref=hypebot.com)