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It’s Time for Big-Name Artists to Join Music’s New Labor Movement
- ggm 4y agoNot one mention of Tidal. A shame, since its artist-owned. No disagree with the central thesis, but this is not a problem only Spotify exists in. Destroy the joint in A&R is a way off. Naievely, I thought that in the 1970s the independent labels were going to kill EMI and Sony. Fat chance! Every muso I know makes more on merch than on sound sold. They own the merch rights better than the sound rights. Says a lot about the value inherent in digital music these days. I'm pretty sure everyone in the streaming business is ripping somebody off. It could be the customer, or the artist, or the intermediary, nobody's hands are clean at this point. Tidal is not exactly a level playing field either. Do all fans eschew pirated MP3s? Rich artist vs Poor Artist is still dog-eat-dog.