Dev behind one of 2024's best indie horror games celebrates 1 million soundtrack streams on Spotify: "I can buy like two hot dogs with the revenue"
Nov. 19, 2024Martin Halldin’s excellent Mouthwashing score is a hit
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Mouthwashing sound designer Martin Halldin is celebrating one million soundtrack streams on Spotify, but apparently he isn’t making a ton of money from the platform.
In a tweet, Halldin celebrated the accomplishment while jokingly lamenting Spotify’s famously stingy revenue share for artists and share-holders. “I can buy like two hot dogs with the revenue,” he said.
Halldin followed upthat he currently hasn’t made anything from the Spotify streams because the company hasn’t reported back to the service he uses to distribute his music. He did estimate that in theory he could make around $4000 in total from the streams — “similar to a decent months salary,” but he clarified that “all of it goes back into Wrong Organ though because I want us to have a longer runway to make more stuff.”
My fellow horror sicko at GR+ Leon Hurleycovered Mouthwashing a lot more extensively than I did in October, and I’d highly advise you read his follow-up if you’re at all intrigued. “It’s bleak, deep, and effortlessly stylish and the only way you’re going to find out what it says to you is by playing it,” he teased. “I hope it hurts.”
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After scoring a degree in English from ASU, I worked as a copy editor while freelancing for places like SFX Magazine, Screen Rant, Game Revolution, and MMORPG on the side. Now, as GamesRadar’s west coast Staff Writer, I’m responsible for managing the site’s western regional executive branch, AKA my apartment, and writing about whatever horror game I’m too afraid to finish.
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