He is, however, celebrating the response to his album The Lone Runner and the 60,000 subscribers that have chosen to listen to his hit single Brick by Brick, through Spotify.
And devotees of the Swedish-borne service are not the only musical critics who are raving about The Lone Runner, which was released on CD and through Spotify simultaneously on March 17.
The album also debuted at number four on the ARIA (Australian Recording Industry Association) jazz and blues charts.
Ahead of Matera on the chart was Van Morrison, Norah Jones and Ultimate Sinatra, his album spending three weeks in the top 10.
“The week it (The Lone Runner) debuted it outsold an album by Fleetwood Mac and Michael Buble,” he said.
A bit further down the list on the jazz and blues albums chart were albums from Eric Clapton and Nina Simone, not bad company to keep.
Brick by Brick, the single, was also ranked number 12 SBS Chill Radio’s Top Chilliest 100 — a celebration of smooth-sounding artists from around the globe.
The SBS Chill channel rates music across all genres from down-tempo, lofi, lounge and electronica from bygone decades to current hits.
Number one was Groove Armada’s At the River and ahead of Matera’s Brick by Brick (number 12) were artists from the UK, US and France.
For alternate music fans Matera is among musical acts like Moby, Portishead, Rufus Du Sol and Bonobo at the top of the list.
Matera said the music on the album was a mixture of old and new material, though the older material was being released for the first time to CD and spotify.
He explained The Lone Runner name of the album represented him, being a solo artist and the headphone wearing walkers and joggers who escaped society by taking in music while living everyday life.
His album has been released by independent Australian label Possum Records, responsible for producing music from Little River Band, Linda Rondstadt and Dr Hook.
“There is a big market for this sort of stuff, chilled music,” Matera said.
A self-confessed “hard rocker’’, Matera stepped a little off centre to create the singles that are featured on the new album.
His new album is now available at JB Hi Fi.
“The label only informed me a couple of days ago that it was in there stores. I’ve been around a while, but it is exciting to have an album that has made the ARIA charts,” he said.
Matera wrote Brick by Brick during a 2014 tour of Austria, recording it on his return to Australia.
“It was never really released properly,” he said.
Another of the album’s singles, Travelllin’ West, was written 12 years ago, but never released on CD.
“That’s one of the reasons I’ve done it now, it is totally different sound to my other music,” Matera said.
Matera said heavy metal guys would often explore different sounds and this was his time.
Re-release: Music recorded by the self confessed “hard rocker’’ has been re-released by USA label Renaissance Records, following his recent rise to prominence as both an author and blues artist.
It was way back in 2011 that Matera released his first EP (extended play) Slave to the Fingers, which was followed soon after by Creature of Habit.
Both of those have just been re-issued in USA label Renaissance Records as a two-for-one album, with completely new artwork.
“They were also just released on spotify,” Matera said
In all the Kyabram-born artist, who has risen to recent acclaim through the release of his autobiographical book Backstage Pass — The Grit and the Glamour, has released five albums.
Involved in music since his teenage years, the former St Augustine’s College student has travelled the world and interviewed some of the most famous rockers of all time — Aerosmith, Metallica, Kiss, Queen, Bon Jovi and Black Sabbath.
Last year he started sharing his worldwide musical views with the Goulburn Valley audience through his connection to McPherson Media in a Musical Musings column.
Matera said he was probably playing “catch up’’ a bit in regard to Spotify, which started way back in 2006.
“I wasn’t on Spotify until about 10 years after it started, but in today’s world you can’t afford to not to be on there,” he said.
“It is all about making sure people can hear your music and if they like it enough to buy it that is fantastic.”
For the record Drake is the most streamed artist of all time on Spotify, having 28 billion streams in the last decade alone.
For the past three years Puetro Rican rapper Bad Bunny has been the most streamed artist, ahead of Taylor Swift and The Weekend.