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I would pay double for my spotify subscription if it meant better artist pay. Truly my favorite and most-used app.

RGamma 3y ago
Would be great if there was transparency to the user, e.g. the bottom line amount of pay distributed to artists from your listening per billing period. Also they should let internet radios on there and do the same because I have some smaller ones I listen to that don't support premium (higher quality/no ads) streams. All under the precondition they don't destroy indie internet radio culture along the way.
- Y-bar 3y ago
  It would raise too many questions like "why did most of my money go to artists I never listened to in the first place" and Spotify does not want you to be aware of that.
  - rchaud 3y ago
    Streaming is speedrunning cable TV economics.
- satyrnein 3y ago
  They don't have insight into what the actual artist gets. Spotify pays distributors and labels, who have their own contracts with artists.
londons_explore 3y ago
You can just sign up for two spotify accounts if you want to do that...
whyoh 3y ago
>I would pay double for my spotify subscription if it meant better artist pay. I doubt most people would be willing to do the same, however. So, an expensive Spotify would lose to cheaper alternatives. But the crux of the matter is that most artists are willing to work for pennies; either for the small chance of future success or simply because they like doing it (it's just a hobby for them). There's an oversupply of "good enough" talent, undercutting everyone else (except the top 0.01% who are already rich and famous).
troupo 3y ago
> I would pay double for my spotify subscription if it meant better artist pay. In the end its labels who pay the artists, not Spotify.
rchaud 3y ago
Better artist pay means paying $60 for a vinyl LP at a merch booth, or $50 for a T-shirt. If you paid double for your current subscription, that would just put more money into the pockets of the biggest artists on the platform.
phatfish 3y ago
I suspect buying your favourite artists merch gets them a bigger cut, if you want to help out more.
HDThoreaun 3y ago
Spotify makes it very easy to donate to artists. I believe 100% of the donation goes to them or their label
circlefavshape 3y ago
So would I. RN I'm listening to an old playlist I hadn't touched in 8 years, and it's making my heart fall over. Family plan in particular is ridiculously cheap ... though in fairness ALL artistic content is compared to when I was growing up

Would be great if there was transparency to the user, e.g. the bottom line amount of pay distributed to artists from your listening per billing period. Also they should let internet radios on there and do the same because I have some smaller ones I listen to that don't support premium (higher quality/no ads) streams. All under the precondition they don't destroy indie internet radio culture along the way.

Y-bar 3y ago
It would raise too many questions like "why did most of my money go to artists I never listened to in the first place" and Spotify does not want you to be aware of that.
- rchaud 3y ago
  Streaming is speedrunning cable TV economics.
satyrnein 3y ago
They don't have insight into what the actual artist gets. Spotify pays distributors and labels, who have their own contracts with artists.

londons_explore 3y ago

You can just sign up for two spotify accounts if you want to do that...

whyoh 3y ago

>I would pay double for my spotify subscription if it meant better artist pay. I doubt most people would be willing to do the same, however. So, an expensive Spotify would lose to cheaper alternatives. But the crux of the matter is that most artists are willing to work for pennies; either for the small chance of future success or simply because they like doing it (it's just a hobby for them). There's an oversupply of "good enough" talent, undercutting everyone else (except the top 0.01% who are already rich and famous).

troupo 3y ago

> I would pay double for my spotify subscription if it meant better artist pay. In the end its labels who pay the artists, not Spotify.

rchaud 3y ago

Better artist pay means paying $60 for a vinyl LP at a merch booth, or $50 for a T-shirt. If you paid double for your current subscription, that would just put more money into the pockets of the biggest artists on the platform.

phatfish 3y ago

I suspect buying your favourite artists merch gets them a bigger cut, if you want to help out more.

HDThoreaun 3y ago

Spotify makes it very easy to donate to artists. I believe 100% of the donation goes to them or their label

circlefavshape 3y ago

So would I. RN I'm listening to an old playlist I hadn't touched in 8 years, and it's making my heart fall over. Family plan in particular is ridiculously cheap ... though in fairness ALL artistic content is compared to when I was growing up