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Yet another manifestation of Zipf‘s law... why is this notable or surprising? This is just a natural phenomenon
by CyberRabbi 6y ago
Yet another manifestation of Zipf‘s law... why is this notable or surprising? This is just a natural phenomenon
- swiley 6y agoSomething a lot of people don't seem to know about spotify is that artists are compensated based on their position in the charts, not based directly on how many times their song was played. So if you only listen to obscure folk music, most (possibly all) of the $10 you're paying goes to artists you don't listen to. That's why some indie artists say they prefer piracy to spotify, it's almost the same to them.
- nemo44x 6y agoI didn’t realize that. I thought they totaled every artists “played songs” for the month and distributed the proceeds along those lines. How do they calculate the chart rankings?