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I pay for Spotify because everything I want to listen to pretty much seems to be on it. If many of the small artists with only a few streams per month left I wo
by p1necone 8y ago
I pay for Spotify because everything I want to listen to pretty much seems to be on it. If many of the small artists with only a few streams per month left I would probably unsubscribe.
Sure millions of people listen to Taylor Swift, but millions of people in aggregate also listen to Folk Punk, or Indie Country, or their own small local artists on the service too.
I like Spotify because I can go and listen to the latest single by the Foo Fighters or whatever, and the next moment on a whim I'll search up this gem: https://open.spotify.com/album/2JDWZnVNQ2RpUWUF5XNkcX?si=YuJMV77PQpughebXkue24w https://open.spotify.com/album/2JDWZnVNQ2RpUWUF5XNkcX?si=YuJ... and lo and behold it's there too. (warning: album title is a bit nsfw)
- longerthoughts 8y agoThe parent isn't saying that the service doesn't need artists with fewer streams, just that the service takes a bigger hit from losing big names than it does from losing small ones. More people are likely to leave the service from Spotify losing Taylor Swift than from losing a budding Noise artist with 3 followers.
- mynegation 8y agoFunny thing, I subscribed to Spotify _because_ it was at the time Taylor Swift-free zone. (I like her as a person though).
- ucaetano 8y agoSure, but you're one in many millions, the vast majority of users have the exact opposite behavior.
- p1necone 8y agoDo they? Lots more people listen to Taylor Swift than they do any single given "niche" artist, but there's also a lot more niche artists than there are Taylor Swifts (or equivalent).
- ucaetano 8y agoIndeed, but artists are not the source of revenue, users are. There could be a billion small artists, if nobody (or almost nobody) listens to them, they are irrelevant.
- ves 8y agothis is the last place I expected a viper plug.