Music Who is the name Wouter Dewit hear, hear probably does not immediately ring a bell. And yet, the Limburg pianist with his song ‘La Period’ well more than 13 million streams on Spotify. A number that is high enough to make him one of the most successful Belgian artists on the platform.
Wouter, who is an English teacher in a school in Maaseik, with its impressive number of streams in an equally impressive list of Belgian artists like Lost Frequencies, Balthasar and the world-famous dj brothers Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike. Itself remains Wouter best calm under the news, and he has no plans to become a fulltime musician. “I want my music and not what number how many streams. I get influenced too much and so I try there away to keep,” he says to VRT.
But that you have the mark of 13 million streams, is very special and that realizes Wouter, of course. “It is also not from one day to the other. It is a process of a year and a half,” he says. “The playlists on Spotify to be made by curators, and they decide whether or not you are in such a playlist is routed. The record company Zeal has the number sent and finally it was included in the list of “Peaceful Piano”, with a lot of followers, and then it goes fast.”
anyone Who thinks that the Reply of the cashier now also firmly hear ringing, been cheated out of, for rich is Wouter. “The yield gives a certain artistic freedom and ensures that I am selective, that I can do the things I want to do. So can I choose what gigs I do.” How much exactly he earns, he doesn’t want to lose, but it is generally assumed that Spotify’n 0,006 $ per stream pay out. In total, he has a thick, 78.000 dollar earned.
Who has the taste and has gotten a fan of the pianokunsten of Wouter can look forward to the autumn. In september he releases a new cd out and he starts touring along the Flemish cultural centres.