Spotify is making billions for its owners. It can afford to pay real royalties to the artists who create the content for the platform - support the Living Wage for Musicians Act and change streaming from a drain on our industry to a collective benefit www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/spotify-co-f... - ThreadSky

dadadrummer.bsky.social • 223 days ago

Spotify is making billions for its owners. It can afford to pay real royalties to the artists who create the content for the platform - support the Living Wage for Musicians Act and change streaming from a drain on our industry to a collective benefit https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/spotify-co-founder-cashes-out-85-8m-in-stock-after-streamer-posts-record-profit-as-songwriters-brace-for-150m-royalty-cut-this-year1/

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nohomers.bsky.social•222 days ago

Someone needs to create a non-profit model. The technology isn't that difficult I don't think.

fioko.tv•222 days ago

I've looked at Tidal a few times, but their Max quality being "audiophile" snake oil keeps putting me off

dadadrummer.bsky.social•223 days ago

Make Streaming Pay https://weareumaw.org/make-streaming-pay

michiemusic.bsky.social•221 days ago

Him cashing out for me says the company is in trouble long run and he knows it... I may be wrong but you tend to sell out at the top if you can

7leaguebootdisk.bsky.social•222 days ago

Remember, the big 3 record companies own a huge chunk of it, that's how it makes them money, and pays almost nothing per stream.

captador.bsky.social•222 days ago

Spotify are scammers, tidal is seemingly good alternative with highest pay to artists, payments based on your listening and hifi quality. It even slashed price of my family plan by ~40%

lawyerinbeta.com•222 days ago

Can you block entire artists on Tidal? That’s what’s keeping me at Spotify

krityan.bsky.social•222 days ago

Just looked, and you can!

captador.bsky.social•222 days ago

Haven't seen blocking option

beepbeepbeep420.bsky.social•222 days ago

what is the utility of blocking an artist? I don’t think they are able to message you or interact in any way

nailsthetabaxi.bsky.social•222 days ago

Not having any of their songs come up in suggested playlists, I would imagine.

bextraordinary.bsky.social•222 days ago

For sure. I don't dislike Taylor Swift, for example, but her discography is so huge now that when I try to listen to mixes from like, the 2010s, every third song is one of hers and it gets old. I blocked her to diversify my mixes.

lawyerinbeta.com•222 days ago

Correct. I like alt rock but I despise a few very key artists, & I get extremely angry when their songs dominate every single alt rock playlist. E.G., Imagine Dragons. Noooope.

waterloo45.bsky.social•218 days ago

Stealing

bygay.bsky.social•222 days ago

Big Bird calls this "wage theft"

kithrup.bsky.social•222 days ago

Yes! Let's pay artists in stock that they can't sell for restricted periods, and have to pay taxes on before that!

kithrup.bsky.social•222 days ago

(I mean, don't get me wrong, the entire business model is fucked up, and if they're posting a profit then clearly they CAN PAY ARTISTS MORE, but they're only doing what has been legally mandated, so that's the place to change it, of course.)

stillwellgray.ca•222 days ago

Maybe musicians should just rob him

blurplesky.bsky.social•222 days ago

Narrator: It won't.

tovster.bsky.social•222 days ago

More and more I am really beginning to understand the bloody fervor of the guillotine/French Revolution...

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