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The major labels invested in Spotify to help kill illegal downloads and control their future during the transition to streaming. Now, with competing services, t
by Polyisoprene 8y ago
The major labels invested in Spotify to help kill illegal downloads and control their future during the transition to streaming.
Now, with competing services, they want to make sure Spotify doesn’t become dominant and control their future.
- nojvek 8y agoThe thing I don’t understand is why Spotify has to be the label’s slave. The labels are taking a huge margin from both Spotify who is the distributor and the artist who is the creator. Why can’t Spotify just remove the label as the middle man and give artists a bigger chunk? That would attract artists and Spotify gets to increase their share a bit as well. Isn’t a label just a glorified pimp for an artist?
- Polyisoprene 8y agoFor pop music marketing is everything. The major labels are the curators of pop music. Spotify owning/promoting artists would be a big change and it’s probably too early for pure social media promotion. For ambient/classical music Spotify is already doing it. Placing an order on music they believe their subscribers would like from unknown artists.