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While it's an interesting idea it will come at the detriment to other musicians using the platform. Spotify's payouts are largely based on subscriber's monthly

While it's an interesting idea it will come at the detriment to other musicians using the platform. Spotify's payouts are largely based on subscriber's monthly fees divided over the total number of plays for a month (to get price per play), then multiplied by the number of plays an artist gets. This means that as people flood to play the silent songs, other artists who actually use the platform to share audible music are making less money. If they want to crowdsource a free concert tour they should make a Kickstarter/Indiegogo and sell shirts or autographed paraphernalia. Refer to the "Royalties: in detail" section: http://www.spotifyartists.com/spotify-explained/#spotifys-progress-so-far http://www.spotifyartists.com/spotify-explained/#spotifys-pr...

hamburglar 13y ago
It's a gag meant to get attention and poke fun at Spotify's royalty scheme. If anything, it's to other musicians' benefit because it makes a point: Spotify is of so little value to individual musicians that they're willing to thumb their noses at it for publicity.
- mzl 13y ago
  On what are you basing your statement that Spotify has little value to musicians? For example, the link in the comment you replied to has some numbers showing the difference in value between a Spotify music listener and a non-Spotify music listener in the US. From such numbers, and others at that site, it seems like the opposite should be true.