#2135 - Q&A: “Millions of dollars for white noise tracks for Spotify ... this is crazy!”
Side Hustle School
Chris Guillebeau
4.7 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 5 November 2022
⏱️ 6 minutes
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Summary
A business recently made headlines for earning $9 million by streaming white noise tracks on Spotify. Is this still feasible for others—and if not, how can you find something like this in the first place?
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Side Hustle School features a new episode EVERY DAY, featuring detailed case studies of people who earn extra money without quitting their job. This year, the show includes free guided lessons and listener Q&A several days each week.
Show notes: SideHustleSchool.com
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| 0:00.0 | We have seen a lot of wacky and wild ways to make money over the years. |
| 0:12.2 | It's one of the things I find most enjoyable in working on this show for you. |
| 0:16.1 | There's just a bottomless reservoir of money-making ideas, including lots of things that you've never thought of. |
| 0:22.2 | When I started side hustle school, I was like, how am I going to be able to make a different episode every day for a year? |
| 0:27.6 | Is that even possible? Am I going to run out of ideas and stories? |
| 0:30.8 | Here we are in season 6, a different episode every single day, year number 6 here. |
| 0:35.8 | I guess I was wrong about that, but wrong in a good way, because there's just so many ideas. |
| 0:41.4 | This brings me to today's episode. |
| 0:42.8 | What's the latest wacky and wild way to make money selling white noise tracks on Spotify? |
| 0:48.8 | White noise tracks, like background noise. |
| 0:51.4 | If you might listen to, perhaps, while you're working to concentrate. |
| 0:54.3 | I do that myself. |
| 0:55.5 | You may have seen this story circulating recently. |
| 0:58.3 | If not, you're going to hear about it in our listener question. |
| 1:00.7 | I'm going to share a few comments as well, but it is a wacky and wild way that somebody, maybe a few people, have done very, very well. |
| 1:07.4 | Making lots of money. It's so crazy. |
| 1:09.4 | So listener question, basically, is it feasible now? Is it feasible for somebody else? |
| 1:13.9 | And if not, because now lots of people are talking about it, how do you find something like this in the first place? |
| 1:18.9 | That is the real key, after all. |
| 1:20.7 | So let's look at this idea and the concept behind it, detailed question, and my answer coming right up. |
| 1:36.9 | Hey, Chris. This is Ed from Boston. |
| 1:39.0 | I read an online story about people selling white noise tracks on Spotify. |
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