Getting people to rent out music for an ongoing monthly fee that returns basically fuck all for the actual musicians. Streaming is the greatest swindle since the privatisation of public utilities. What a world.
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Before this I used to visit my library in london borrow 10 cds and copy them onto MD, hard drive and cdr. Discovering so much music for funk to jazz to hip hop. Never would’ve heard any of this music then but now a totally different level. Listen to 3,600 new artists in a year.
You know I don't know why, you have to be so sly
One thing I learned, I don't get what I earn
But you get your share, though you ain't nowhere
You get no wiser, but then I despise you
All The Aces, All The Aces, All The Aces
Held by people who ain't got no faces
Spotify advertises gigs and has links to artists websites. That's where the money is made. Anyone who thinks musicians make money selling their music does not understand how things work.
I know this goes against the grain but Spotify is awesome. Not a day goes by that I'm not amazed at the luxury of having (pretty much) all music at my fingertips.
Artists never got paid per play of their single by an individual. I'm not buying anything tangible that I keep.
I think the dislike comes from a person / small group of people getting ridiculously rich on the basis of other people's talent, who aren't paid commensurately. Especially when the real genius was in P2P networks, which this company just co-opted after Napster was sued into oblivion.
See everything else in life. I'd gladly join the workers' cooperative version. But happy that my daughter is growing up with the history of music available to her. I've had a rough couple of years was very grateful also to have music wherever I went. Fuck the fuck but it was always like this.
I sold my CDs 20 years ago because I moved overseas. I don't have a big house. I don't have space for record collections. At it's height Radio 1 paid ten quid to play each time it played a record to 10 million people. I don't have those records still either. I really really appreciate Spotify.
The got a percentage of every unit sold in physical sales plus they got paid whenever their work was played on radio or TV. Very few artists today earn as much money as a minor hit in the 80s
But wasn't the whole point of Spotify that web-based tech made free file sharing a thing and people were going to get music for nothing? So a subscription version was developed so at least they got something.
Artists I like are certainly getting fucked over but ones I don’t like get something instead of nothing when I try their tracks so surely some very small band is actually winning because they got a play because they had a good cover image.
Except Spotify doesn’t pay anything to artists who don’t hit an arbitrary total of streams per time period (I think 1000 a month) so those small bands are actually getting nothing.
Once again somebody confusing artist stream payouts with the fact the bulk of the money goes to the labels, who the artists are signed to. This is the real impact of Spotify on music after piracy nearly broke the industry.
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One thing I learned, I don't get what I earn
But you get your share, though you ain't nowhere
You get no wiser, but then I despise you
All The Aces, All The Aces, All The Aces
Held by people who ain't got no faces
Artists never got paid per play of their single by an individual. I'm not buying anything tangible that I keep.
No one hates libraries.
If all streaming was banned tomorrow, you'd have paid a lot of money to own nothing.
And the majority of artists make nothing which puts up concert ticket prices. Everyone loses here about from the few.