The Spotify / Apple streaming payment model isn't even as fair as that: The revenue from all users is pooled, and then divided per listen rather than per user/

The Spotify / Apple streaming payment model isn't even as fair as that: The revenue from all users is pooled, and then divided per listen rather than per user/artist etc. So this'd be like splitting the app store sub revenue by "app launches" or some other bullshit. Pop junk like Taylor gets a far higher fraction of revenue than they deserve, from teens listening to it non-stop. Artists that I like get 0% of my cash, even if I listen to nothing but their music. The system would at least be fair in scope if artists got a share of each users subscription fee, split per listen for the songs they listened to. That the payments involved are very small and mostly go to middlemen is a separate problem, the whole system is designed to fuck niche artists.