A Los Angeles band figured out a way to make $20,000 from Spotify by doing absolutely nothing.
The royalties started pouring in after Los Angeles band Vulfpeck wrote Sleepify, a completely silent album, and posted it to Spotify.
The scheme, intended to fund a tour of free shows, called for fans to stream the silent album through the night as they slept.
The band is apparently also good at making music, not just publicity:
Fantastic stuff!
Interesting that Spotify doesn't have some sort of "Are you still there?" similar to Pandora. Or maybe it does if you're not premium. To be fair, they could have asked their fans to stream any album of theirs with the volume muted and it likely would have taken Spotify even longer to discover what was going on.