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I heard a rumour once that artists did not actually need to eat. /s

• devalgo 6y ago
  Imagine saying this about a CD store a few decades ago. It would be ridiculous to say that a store was responsible for promoting indie artist CDs. If you want to get listens or sales make good music, it's pretty simple.
  • rewgs 6y ago
    On the other hand, money earned from streaming vs money earned from CD sales (especially a few decades ago) is completely incomparable. If selling CDs through a store could earn you (using simple but realistic numbers here) $100k per year, and Spotify streams to the same audience size earn $1k per year, it’s not unreasonable to expect that Spotify should add a hell of a lot more value on its end, perhaps in the form of driving listeners to artists — especially if Spotify possesses the means to.