u/Putrid_Ad_8262

i make my songs with suno and post them with a video on tiktok and insta.

most comments are actually about the music. "this goes hard", "whats the song called", that kind of stuff.

some are pure haters about everything. ai music slop, no soul, not real music. fine, that was always there.

but now the videos are ai too and i wonder if thats where it flips. ai music slop was already the comment. ai video slop now too?

do u put ai visuals on ur suno songs or do u film something real? and did u notice the haters getting louder when the video was ai as well?

So I've been doing this for exactly two years now (started sept 2024) and I figured I'd post the whole picture instead of just the nice part of the graph like everyone does. Screenshot from spotify for artists is attached, the numbers are the full period worldwide.

2.6M streams, 175K listeners, 110K saves, 103K playlist adds. And 3.2K followers lol. Payout over the two years is around $7,000 usd, give or take, so roughly 290 a month averaged out. Some months were a good bit more, the last couple were a lot less.

Genre is violin metal, all instrumental. Basically metal with a lead violin doing what a vocalist would normaly do. Uploaded more than 200 tracks in total, most of it in the first year and a half.

The thing that matters in the screenshot isnt the peak. Its the little release markers under the chart. Look where they get thin, thats around april this year, and thats exactly where the streams go from "bit of a dip" to "ok this is a trend now". I slowed down uploading for personal reasons and the catalog just... didnt hold. Every time I paused for a few weeks before the same thing happened with a delay of a couple weeks, I just never connected it properly until I looked at the full 2 years. The tracks dont die, they still get played, but the algorithm clearly stops pushing you the moment you stop feeding it new stuff. Its a treadmill. I thought I was building something that keeps paying, I was actually just working a content job with a weird payment schedule.

Second thing, and this one stung a bit. 175K people listened and 3.2K followed. Thats under 2%. Meanwhile 110K saves. So people like the tracks enough to save them, they just have zero interest in who made them. 15 streams per listener says the same thing, thats focus/workout/background listening, they put it on and let it run. There is no fanbase. Theres a catalog that fills a mood, and the second something else fills that mood better you're gone.

Which is fine for the income honestly. But it means the whole thing is worth basically nothing the day you stop. Nobody is waiting for the next track.

Would I do it again? Yeah, but different. Fixed release schedule from day one and never break it, thats the only variable that visibly moved the chart. Stop caring about followers completly, its not that kind of music. And go in knowing that the day you stop is the day it starts ending, not the day you get to relax.

Happy to answer stuff about distribution, cadence, what the source of streams tab looked like etc. Also curious if anyone with a bigger catalog has seen it actually stabilize after slowing down, or if its always this.