Come on man, you think Spotify has a spare $20 laying around to hand over to an artist? Creative accounting seems to always ensure they are always juuuust getting it over the line so no starving artists feel anything but sadness and sorry for the poor executives at Spotify when they ask about seeing if they can get a little of the money swept up in their domination of world royalty monies /s
At this point, who doesn't? I dunno man I wanna be an ethical consumer but I feel the same as when I see a plastic island in the middle of the ocean and I get blamed for not recycling my plastic bottles.
Spotify has monopolised music. Music is a basic need, in my eyes. I either screw myself and listen to less music in my day to day or support this horrible company. If I unsubscribe they will not miss me. I'm just making myself miserable.
I feel like a feudal peasant. Shut up, work, don't complain, eat slop, repeat.
Its actually more convenient for me to use spotify than figure out how to put files on my phone and then play them in my car. Also: I don't have to scour sketchy websites looking for new bands like its 25 years ago, lol.
I've heard the news that it was broken for some time but is supposedly fixed by now – I've used modded Deezer for the last 6 months, so don't know anything about that.
Pirating music doesn’t compensate artists. There are plenty of music streaming services other than Spotify, plus options to buy albums and songs directly if you don’t want to pay a subscription. I use Apple Music, and I think it’s definitely worth it.
Yes, but listening music on streamings doesn't as well. I have about 7000 minutes of listening to my top one artist on Spotify, and even if I would feel the need to listen every song for only 30secs (to generate max revenue), it's merely $140 to an artist (with AM revenue, Spotify is much lower) – and a big chunk of it is taken by label.
Just buy a merch T-shirt, it would support the artist more.
I would hate it if my account got suspended because I have A LOT of playlists and also I use the download feature often. I don't think the pirated version allows for downloads.
And I guess even if it's not a lot I support the artists with my money?
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It’s just the hive mind that believe everything they read and repeat it ad-nauseam. Without any investigation or critical thought used during any point.
Even when we know the artists who complained the most about streaming earnings didn’t even understand their own recording contracts and didn’t realise their music label was taking 90% of the streaming profits.
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1 Billion plays!? That’s like $20 in Spotify revenue! Bravo