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Basically my opinion is, yeah! Why not? If I only listen to one band, have my money! Why does anyone else deserve it any more than they do? Or if you want Spot

Basically my opinion is, yeah! Why not? If I only listen to one band, have my money! Why does anyone else deserve it any more than they do? Or if you want Spotify could do it over the year rather than the month so it’s less extreme. I just want my money to go only to bands I listen to. Is that so crazy? If I listen to no music, maybe then it can just go based on my average listening history, or last month. Don’t let a few edge cases put you off a much fairer way of distributing the money in general.

enobrev 6y ago
I have to agree. I'm not sure I understand why any other artist should receive that subscription money if I paid for a service abd only listened to a single artist. The service got their cut. Shouldn't the artist make their money for my listening preference? I clearly would not have paid for that service if that band wasn't there to listen to. Beyond fair, it seems well deserved. The opposite of that is strange to me. Seems akin to buying a record at a record store and having my money go to other artists because people usually buy their records.
- jonplackett 6y ago
  > Seems akin to buying a record at a record store and having my money go to other artists because people usually buy their records. When you spell it out like that it shows just how insane it is!
  - phillipseamore 6y ago
    We'll technically most of the revenue from record sales goes to the label, which they usually use a part of to find and sign new artists (so other artists do benefit).
    - jonplackett 6y ago
      Ha, you’re probably right! I bet that’s what the main problem is anyway! I’ve been trying to work out some math and forgetting they’re all getting totally screwed but the label!
    - enobrev 6y ago
      It's definitely true that the label gets the majority, and Spotify in this case, but there is (usually) a per-record cut for the artist in the physical album version of this transaction.

enobrev 6y ago

I have to agree. I'm not sure I understand why any other artist should receive that subscription money if I paid for a service abd only listened to a single artist. The service got their cut. Shouldn't the artist make their money for my listening preference? I clearly would not have paid for that service if that band wasn't there to listen to. Beyond fair, it seems well deserved. The opposite of that is strange to me. Seems akin to buying a record at a record store and having my money go to other artists because people usually buy their records.

jonplackett 6y ago
> Seems akin to buying a record at a record store and having my money go to other artists because people usually buy their records. When you spell it out like that it shows just how insane it is!
- phillipseamore 6y ago
  We'll technically most of the revenue from record sales goes to the label, which they usually use a part of to find and sign new artists (so other artists do benefit).
  - jonplackett 6y ago
    Ha, you’re probably right! I bet that’s what the main problem is anyway! I’ve been trying to work out some math and forgetting they’re all getting totally screwed but the label!
  - enobrev 6y ago
    It's definitely true that the label gets the majority, and Spotify in this case, but there is (usually) a per-record cut for the artist in the physical album version of this transaction.