Streaming Counts -The Music Mental Health Pandemic

The Compass Method
7 min readMay 26, 2022

Should streaming counts be hidden for the mental health of artists?

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Earlier this year I posted an Instagram story about an artist who approached me with 642,983 cumulative streams of their top 5 releases on Spotify over the last year. I am writing this blog post as I received over 100 DMs about this subject, clearly hitting a nerve.

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