Comparing artists that could make record sales earlier to all current streaming artists is comparing apples to oranges. I agree that Spotify's revenue split is

Comparing artists that could make record sales earlier to all current streaming artists is comparing apples to oranges. I agree that Spotify's revenue split is not perfect (it is in fact worse than what you described), but it is still much more fair than record sales. I consider having tape/CD record sold in physical shops (i.e. not during concerts) would be a success on its own in the 90s. Now every artist can publish their work on Spotify and start to earn money, possibly getting noticed through it. It is much feasible to not be a part of record label now.