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If artists negotiated like Drake, record labels would face a bleak future. https://musically.com/2020/07/20/steve-stoute-if-drake-goes-independent-the-music-bu

• winternett 4y ago
  That video is advertising a digital distribution service which is owned by a well known record label exec. The sales figures are quite exaggerated... 99% of artists never sell anywhere near the volume that Drake does. I think it's important for artists to call out and quit pushing the mostly false profit models that the industry keeps pushing to put artists on a pedestal and to keep artists worshiping the big music industry machine. If Russ was making $1m a week, he would not be doing self-produced promotional videos and tiktok posts about how to succeed in music. Even $1m a week for a well known music artist is not realistic in a good economy when Spotify only pays a fraction of a penny per play.