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My wife is a (professional) musician. She has achieved some organic popularity and her music has been in TV/movies, but having some songs featured on curated Sp
by locusofself 4y ago
My wife is a (professional) musician. She has achieved some organic popularity and her music has been in TV/movies, but having some songs featured on curated Spotify playlists has been one of the most profitable things for her career. Musicians rightfully complain that spotify pays fractions of a penny per play, but if your music ends up on a front-page playlist for months/years you can at least make many thousands of dollars.
- Rastonbury 4y agoThe argument here is that Spotify is adding to their curated playlists songs/artists that they do not need to pay royalties to. So they end up paying out less royalties to musicians like your wife
- nivenkos 4y agoRoyalties will still be paid though. And royalties are paid from a revenue share model AFAIK, it's not a strict 0.0X cents per stream, etc. It's probably a bit of a better deal than the royalty agreements with the big 4 record labels, but I'd be surprised if it's so much so to organise this sort of conspiracy.
- Rastonbury 4y agoIf 3 songs out of 30 on every curated playlist was royalty free that's 10% less royalties. It's the same business rationale as Amazon Basics