The Pocket Gods
Nobody Makes Money Anymore - from the Film - Inspired The 30 Second Song Movie
Nub Music
Radio Impact: 28 March 2023
Release: 29 March 2022
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World record breaking indie band The Pocket Gods have made a film about their campaign for fair royalties from Spotify.
The film is called Inspired The 30 Second Song Movie and is out now on to watch for free on their Youtube Channel:
Inspired The 30 Second Song Movie
Nobody Makes Money Anymore is the tagline and also the title track from the film. 0.002 is the b-side and references the amount the band get paid from Spotify per stream.
The Film highlights their campaign for fairer royalties since their first (in a series of 9) albums of 100 songs all 30 seconds long back in 2015. The band read an article by US music Professor Mike Ericco who asked why songwriters of today weren't adapting their craft to the media of today. He said the reason why people started writing 3 minute pop songs was due to the length of 7 inch vinyl. He said artists should just write 30 second songs as streaming services paid out a royalty in full after this - why would you write longer songs especially as they were paying so little.
The Pocket Gods took this on board and recorded their first 100X30 album which as well gaining features on UK and International TV also got them an official Guinness World Record for most songs on a digital album. Since then the band have released 9 albums of the same format and their 2022 album 1000X30 Nobody Makes Money Anymore holds the current world record for most tracks on an album (1000). This album has had so far 1.2 million streams on Spotify which has netted the band a paltry £256!!!
The band ended this campaign in October 2022 with the release of their album Vegetal Digital of which there is only one copy on vinyl. It is on sale at their local record shop - Empire Records for £1 million. With the funds the band will invest the money into an ethical streaming service called Nub Play which will pay artists & songwriters at least 1p per stream.
The band were formed in 1998 at Tower Records in London and recorded 74 albums since then and were briefly discovered by the late John Peel before he tragically died a few months after championing the band. They have also had rave reviews from the likes of Tom Robinson and Steve Lamacq from BBC 6 music.
The band are Noel Storey (keys) and Mark Christopher Lee Vocals and Guitar (both founding members) ex Searchers drummer Scott Ottaway and Simon Herries on Bass.
Follow them
Twitter @thepocketgod
Facebook @thepocketgods
For features and interviews:
press@nubmusicuk.com
The film is called Inspired The 30 Second Song Movie and is out now on to watch for free on their Youtube Channel:
Inspired The 30 Second Song Movie
Nobody Makes Money Anymore is the tagline and also the title track from the film. 0.002 is the b-side and references the amount the band get paid from Spotify per stream.
The Film highlights their campaign for fairer royalties since their first (in a series of 9) albums of 100 songs all 30 seconds long back in 2015. The band read an article by US music Professor Mike Ericco who asked why songwriters of today weren't adapting their craft to the media of today. He said the reason why people started writing 3 minute pop songs was due to the length of 7 inch vinyl. He said artists should just write 30 second songs as streaming services paid out a royalty in full after this - why would you write longer songs especially as they were paying so little.
The Pocket Gods took this on board and recorded their first 100X30 album which as well gaining features on UK and International TV also got them an official Guinness World Record for most songs on a digital album. Since then the band have released 9 albums of the same format and their 2022 album 1000X30 Nobody Makes Money Anymore holds the current world record for most tracks on an album (1000). This album has had so far 1.2 million streams on Spotify which has netted the band a paltry £256!!!
The band ended this campaign in October 2022 with the release of their album Vegetal Digital of which there is only one copy on vinyl. It is on sale at their local record shop - Empire Records for £1 million. With the funds the band will invest the money into an ethical streaming service called Nub Play which will pay artists & songwriters at least 1p per stream.
The band were formed in 1998 at Tower Records in London and recorded 74 albums since then and were briefly discovered by the late John Peel before he tragically died a few months after championing the band. They have also had rave reviews from the likes of Tom Robinson and Steve Lamacq from BBC 6 music.
The band are Noel Storey (keys) and Mark Christopher Lee Vocals and Guitar (both founding members) ex Searchers drummer Scott Ottaway and Simon Herries on Bass.
Follow them
Twitter @thepocketgod
Facebook @thepocketgods
For features and interviews:
press@nubmusicuk.com
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