A brand new streaming app, Marine Snow, has launched. Not like different platforms, Marine Snow makes use of a 90-day rotation of songs, and urges customers to work together with one another and the platform to entry the music. Customers should crack open egg-like capsules so as to unveil songs, or mix ‘shards’ to unlock different songs. The extra time customers spend studying track blurbs or listening to music, the extra shards they accumulate. There’s additionally a Roundtable part that permits customers to work together with one another and earn rewards.
Chatting with Resident Advisor, app founder Tony Lashley defined that Marine Snow was an area geared toward “connoisseurs to search out new associates by new music, and new music by new associates.” The app can be beneficial for artists. Its 90-day rotation mannequin implies that Marine Snow is ready to pay artists the equal of 500,000 US Spotify streams upfront, whatever the whole variety of streams their track will get on the platform. “The median artist we’re working with receives about 100,000 streams on their median track on Spotify over the lifetime of the track, which means that for 90 days we’re paying 2.5x the lifetime income of their median track,” Lashey defined.
At the moment, music from artists together with Amnesia Scanner, Palmistry, and Oliver Coates is out there to stream on Marine Snow. The app’s future plans embody a present store, and an public sale that may permit artists to promote their songs as unique downloads and one-of-one NFTs as soon as they hit the 90-day mark on the app.
Discover out extra about Marine Snow by signing up on their web site right here, or obtain the app at no cost from the App Retailer right here.