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Benn Jordan, aka The Flashbulb, made a recent video titled: "Why Spotify Will Ultimately Fail" (Because they are screwing artists, on whom they depend to gener
by consumer451 4y ago
Benn Jordan, aka The Flashbulb, made a recent video titled: "Why Spotify Will Ultimately Fail"
(Because they are screwing artists, on whom they depend to generate streamable content.)
As an example, he made 3x on Bandcamp vs Spotify for the same album.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDfNRWsMRsU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDfNRWsMRsU
- persedes 4y agoOh wow, haven't heard from Flahbulb in a loooong time.
- ioseph 4y agoHighly recommend his channel if you're interested in music production, I particularly enjoyed his tutorial on programming Dexed (a fantastic soft DX7 clonee). Music wise, I miss his earlier stuff.
- schoolornot 4y agoArtists don't really have a say.
- Herbstluft 4y agoThe only artists that benefit from Spotify are the top of the top, as in Beyoncé/Lady Gaga level. I always suspected that the falloff is pretty steep as soon as you step away from let's say the top n artists at a time. This confirms this suspicion again. I'd go as far as say that piracy is much better for artists due to the lack of dark patterns (which funnel more people to fewer artists). And once you visit a show or buy a piece of merch you have given an artist more money than Spotify listening alone ever would have, and it is not even close.