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I'd like to call attention to the incredible situation regarding Benn Jordan (The Lightbulb), Spotify, and TuneCore, which just beggars belief. Jordan uses Tun
by SeanLuke 3y ago
I'd like to call attention to the incredible situation regarding Benn Jordan (The Lightbulb), Spotify, and TuneCore, which just beggars belief.
Jordan uses TuneCore to distribute his music to major streaming services. He has posted a series of videos critical of Spotify among other streaming services, including the most recent, entitled "How Money Laundering W/ Spotify Works", attacking fraud on Spotify.
Very soon thereafter Jordan's music was pulled by TuneCore from all major streaming services due to, incredibly, supposed "high amounts of streaming fraud". Lots of finger pointing have since ensued. Spotify insists it didn't tell TuneCore to do it, but it's looking pretty murky. They did it over the weekend so there was no recourse until Monday. They've since backpedaled and pseudo-apologized. To me (and others) this is very suspicious.
As far as I can tell, Benn is (1) beyond reproach here and (2) was only able to get both of them to admit error because he had a big enough audience. Smaller musicians would have to resort to, you know, posting to HN asking for help.
- toyg 3y agoIt's shit, but musicians really critical of "the system" have always had trouble with mainstream channels; nobody likes to work with someone who bites the hand that feeds them. Hence the whole punk thing - self-production, indie labels, etc etc.