To explain more clearly why people are saying spotify payments are unfair and what they want instead: Lets say I pay $10 for spotify premium and listen to noth

To explain more clearly why people are saying spotify payments are unfair and what they want instead: Lets say I pay $10 for spotify premium and listen to nothing else on spotify except my favorite {indie band}. If spotify is paying out 70% to artists, both me and surely the {indie band} would prefer that my $7 (after spotify takes $3) go directly to the {indie band}. This would be fair, as I would know that listening to my favorite artists directly supports them (also nice incentive to buy spotify premium). What spotify is doing instead (AFAIK), is basically taking the $7 and giving $6.99999999 to {top artist on spotify} because {top artist on spotify} has 100 millions of streams and listeners and giving $0.000000001 to {indie band} because it has maybe 1-3 listeners and 10 streams. But wait, it's even worse after recent spotify changes, because now they can just go ahead and give {top artist on spotify} the whole $7 and give the {indie band} absolutely nothing if it doesn't hit the 1000 listens for a song threshold. That's not fair because if you are pooling everything together and then going solely based on percentages of listen counts, its easy to game the system with bot farm listeners. [1] I understand this likely won't change, because if spotify doesn't bend over backwards to please the big labels of top artists with these obviously skewed systems where big labels get everything and small artists get nothing, the big labels would just pull their catalogue out of spotify and kill it. [1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=et8R5i5UEjY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=et8R5i5UEjY