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Blame music publishers. They are the ones raising prices and paying artists pennies. Spotify has no power to change this. Spotify is/was spending heavily on po
by randomifcpfan 4y ago
Blame music publishers. They are the ones raising prices and paying artists pennies. Spotify has no power to change this.
Spotify is/was spending heavily on podcasts to try to create a new revenue stream with better economics.
- jzb 4y agoSpotify has plenty of power to change this and it's disingenuous to argue otherwise. Spotify has lobbied hard to affect royalty rates for music / songwriters and keep them low. Certainly the music publishers / labels are also to blame, but Spotify isn't innocent. Also - Spotify wanted Podcasts so they went to the podcasters and made deals. Spotify is apparently paying to create royalty free music it can insert into playlists. Spotify could just as easily be making direct deals with, say, indie music artists or wooing bands away from major labels if it wanted to focus on music. It's not. It's aiming for the streaming service equivalent of reality TV instead but paying big money for them instead of to musicians.