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Spotify has had a severe and negative effect on musicians who make what I term 'peak experience music'. Amazing music, but not something you listen to every day
by geden 8y ago
Spotify has had a severe and negative effect on musicians who make what I term 'peak experience music'. Amazing music, but not something you listen to every day. Say you listen once a month or even just a few times a year.
Before:
2 listens = dealer price of a CD in UK = about £7.5 (on a good UK indie that's split 50/50 with the artist).
Now:
2 listens = income from 2 streams on Spotify = about £0.0006
I'm thinking of artists like Autechre.
Spotify is starting the shape the sort of music that artists can be successful with, in a bad way.
- GuiA 8y agoIf you care about an artist, buy things from them. Records, tee shirts, posters, concert tickets, etc. Streaming revenue is essentially a rounding error.
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- pertsix 8y agoThis is not true/unfair interpretation. An artist does not get paid after the first payment from the label from the sale of a CD. If you play the CD on repeat, the artist does not benefit, nor does the label. /Labels/ get paid for every single listen on Spotify. There is also Spotify Direct, too, and the artist can directly benefit more than if they went with a label.
- kzrdude 8y agoMaybe pay per play is not fair, payout shouldn't be linearly proportional to number of plays!
- syrrim 8y agohuh? is label revenue unrelated to artist revenue?
- geden 8y agoYou appear to have missed the point. I'm singling out a genre of music where you might only listen to an album a few times. So repeat plays are irrelevant.
- neves 8y agoI spend less music in streaming than before, but surely a lot of people didn't spend US$20 each month in music
- wolco 8y agoIn 1999 at the peak the average person spent $28 now the average person spends less than 15.