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I don't know RJD2, but does Opeth and Nick Cave really only make $.22 a month from Spotify? If that's true, something is deeply and terribly wrong with the lic
by xorcist 12y ago
I don't know RJD2, but does Opeth and Nick Cave really only make $.22 a month from Spotify?
If that's true, something is deeply and terribly wrong with the license agreements. These are not some amateurs, but pretty big acts with fans from all over, and while I despise saying they "deserve" this or that I would at least expect the sum to matter.
- r721 12y agoYeah, Opeth has 735,477 listeners on last.fm - that's comparable with the best known artists in the genre ever like Deep Purple or Black Sabbath (around 2 million both).
- anoonmoose 12y agoI've been using last.fm for a long time and I've spent a lot of time looking at the data. I would argue that the average person on last.fm is much, much more likely to have heard of Opeth than the average YouTube or Spotify user. I'd also argue that straight up listener count isn't a very useful number, since Kanye West (the most listened to artist on last.fm last week by about 33%) only has about 4M listeners. I don't think Kanye is only 5x as popular/successful/listened to as Opeth.