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> Paid out like Spotify pays out artists. As others said, Spotify pays shit for artists, but maybe that's the problem with the whole thing here. It should be
by troyvit 6mo ago
> Paid out like Spotify pays out artists.
As others said, Spotify pays shit for artists, but maybe that's the problem with the whole thing here. It should be more like how Bandcamp pays artists (80% to the artists, 20% for Bandcamp), but then the rapacious economy supporting the largest LLM providers would collapse and (wipes away a single tear) we'd all have to use simpler, cheaper, most likely local models.
- Auracle 6mo ago“Since Spotify pays out two-thirds of all music revenue to the industry – almost 70% of what we take in – as Spotify revenues grow, music payouts have grown as well. “ https://newsroom.spotify.com/2026-01-28/2025-music-industry-payouts-whats-next-for-artists/ https://newsroom.spotify.com/2026-01-28/2025-music-industry-... That’s not that far off from 80%.
- TremendousJudge 6mo agoIt's not evenly distributed. Big labels get much better payouts per listen than independent artists
- Vegenoid 6mo agoI think people get distracted by the "percentage of revenue paid to musicians" thing, when the bigger reason streaming pays out so little to artists is that people pay $10-$15 per month for unlimited access to all music. Even 80% of that, split across dozens or hundreds of musicians, is not very much. Of course, it's also worth remembering that streaming was partially a response to widespread piracy. It's difficult to get people to pay very much at scale for easily copied digital media. In addition, a greater share of the payout (relative to number of streams) goes to big music distributors that control the biggest, most popular artists and have the leverage and employees to negotiate those agreements.