Yes, Mr. Realism. Those are excellent points, but I think everyone is well aware that in order to make more money one needs to spend more money and put forth more time. More expensive offers will have higher material, labor, and related costs, but for most artists it will be more than worth it. Beyond the fact that one will make significantly more gross revenue and net income, artists that undertake a Pledge-style direct-to-fan campaign will most certainly delight their fans. Delighting fans, especially your core -- or super -- fans is never a bad thing. I think we'll all agree on that point.

For the record....Topspin is not owned by ArtistLink. Why would ArtistLink end the integration with Spotify? ArtistLink is actually part of Beats Music (owned by Apple). I'm surprised the ArtistLink <> Spotify integration lasted as long as it did.

Impressive, but maybe a guy with 14K Twitter followers is really no longer just a guy in a kitchen tweeting. Especially to a band that "only" has 28K followers. You are an influencer with a pretty large platform.

This is a great case study and story. Curious what your plans are in terms of optimizing his web site to capitalize on all this attention.

Love Stageit. Telling all my clients about it. Thanks for a great interview, Hisham and Evan.

Oh, bummer. Now it says "This code was not valid. Please try again". Wish SoundCloud had their act together earlier.

Yep, same issue when I attempted -- "We're sorry, but something went wrong...."