Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you probably heard about much of North America losing access to some of millennial’s favorite sites during the DDoS hack on Friday. The October 21 attack took down sites like Soundcloud, Amazon, Twitter, Netflix, Etsy, Github, and Spotify for most of the day. If you want to learn more about the what or why head to Google because the exact cause of the attacks are too techie for us, we just know that TWITTER WAS DOWN. What we’d like to know is how did that affect our friends distributing content? what a bad day to schedule a release huh?

In the modern music climate many of those sites are an integral part of the revenue and promotions model for digital musicians. With upwards of 40 million paying subscribers and many more paying through ads, it’s safe to say Spotify is a channel that no artist can ignore. We can’t confirm or deny if Spotify will compensate artists for the loss of airtime but it’s likely a significant dollar amount. With our buds the Chainsmokers currently racking up 1.2 million daily United States plays on their recent single alone, that may be a cool 7,200 USD lost from a day of downtime. Flume’s tune with Tove Lo may have lost up to 1,700 USD by missing out on it’s 291k average daily plays. Not huge but hey, that would pay my rent.

Sure these superstars at the top of the charts are raking in the cash these days but every penny counts right? Not much that can be done at this point but it’s a bummer that some Mr. Robot wannabe cost some significant chedda for producers trying to make it happen through streams.