Spotify pays artists around: $0.003 to $0.004 per stream.
Deezer: $0.007
Apple Music: $0.0061 to $0.0084
Amazon Music: $0.0096
Tidal: $0.01284
Qobuz: $0.01873
So if you pay a monthly fee for Spotify, why not just switch to a platform that pays artists 5 times more?
Personally I find it hard to tell people to use Qobuz because it costs $12.99 or $10.83 with a yearly subscription.
Tidal costs as much as Spotify though so try that maybe.
I also like Deezer because they also offer a yearly subscription that costs around
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I just use yt music
Oh no, millionaires aren’t getting as much money as they could for a service I pay for?
Does limewire still work?
+Deezer is from eu
Sure, but Spotify are also exposing those artists to a user base of 100m+ active listeners.
There’s nothing stopping those artists from also streaming on those other platforms.
Spotify isn’t their only source of income. So even if Spotify is paying less, Artists are still being paid hansomly by all their services combined. Not to mention licensing royalties to these companies too.
So how much does yt music pay?
For independent artists, I agree.
For major label artists, do you really think they get paid from streams and album sales?
And the spotify app got so incredibly slow
The amount of money an “entertainer” earns isn’t my concern. Could give a flying fuck if they are being cheated or not. They have a voice, options, and free will.
I’ve had Spotify since it released and never paid a penny. Not sure why people bother tbh 🤷🏼♂️
>So if you pay a monthly fee for Spotify, why not just switch to a platform that pays artists 5 times more?
Because I have been using Spotify for well over a decade, and I got all my music and playlists on there, having to move that to some other streaming service, and then get use to that there, that is a lot of work to do.
Use whatever you want, if you want to support your favourite artists, buy their albums.
Issue between Spotify and the artist. Not me.
They can take their music off the service if they want. Use only the ones that pay more. I don’t care.
I use Spotify because it serves me best.
Spotify is still better than all of these other services combined.
And head up, I wouldn’t even use Apple music if Apple pays me to use it.
It’s their own decision to end up on Spotify.
Deezer
>costs around
bruh.
Artists decide to have their music on Spotify. I don’t care how much they get paid. That is between them and the company.
Let me know which artist needs an application for Wendy’s. I know times are hard.
Those artistes get higher volume through Spotify though. So it’s likely the Spotify checks are larger in general.
My unpopular opinion is that artists are not underpaid at all. At the rate of $0.003 per stream, Taylor swift still made about $80 million from Spotify last year. Explain to me why musicians deserve that kind of pay.
I’ve paid to see live performances of dozens of artists that I discovered through Spotify, which is a huge benefit to them.
will you open up a shop infront of a road that has 10000 people going through daily or one that has 10 million
thats just how economy of scale works coz they artists are making WAY more in spotify than the other platforms
Yea I might switch over to youtube music, apparently spotify is going to add ad’s to the paid version and there will be another tier that is more expensive but no ads.
It is the other platforms’ job to do better marketing and convince me to leave spotify.
Your point is irrelevant. Would you rather make $5/Burger and sell $20 million worth, or $1 million/burger and sell nothing? Spotify is the biggest app. The artists are making more there than anywhere else.
Reality is most people will save themselves money over giving money to already wealthy artists. After all 99.9% of people are not listening to some small time artist on Spotify who desperately needs the money
Artists agree to the fee they get from Spotify I couldn’t care less
It’s also a competitive market Apple music and YouTube, Amazon, Deezer, SoundCloud – compare all of them Spotify is the best for the user maybe not the artist
You are 100% correct and if it is an unpopular opinion then others don’t care about musicians being exploited as long as they get their cheap access to music.
Most artists on Spotify have millions more dollars than I do, so I really dgaf
I switched to TIDAL a few years ago and it’s much better audio and algorithm and they pay artists better. Not sure why more people don’t switch tbh, Spotify really isn’t that good.
It’s about ease of access and exposure. If you want to support them buy their vinyl/CD
Plus Spotify has a lot of other shady practices. Like, really, just gooogle Spotify and you will find them doing something questionable. Sure, other services are far from saints, but Spotify is easily the greediest.
P.S. I also prefer Deezer
Apple Music best music highest quality music best variety, early releases, best personal discovery station. It’s a no brainer
>So if you pay a monthly fee for Spotify
And if I don’t? Less than 40% of monthly active users are subscribed to premium. (they mention 675 MAUs and 263 subs, not percentages directly.)
Those 60% of users make spotify less money, so when spotify shares the same percentage of revenue they make (70%), the total that the artists get is less
~40% of their users were responsible for 87% of their revenue
I’m a composer for video games and films. I fully support this message. What Spotify pays is ridiculous.
Yeah, they’re greedy bastards. But exposure!! You don’t automatically get exposure on spotify, you have to do that work as well. People defending then suck as well. It’s a big corporation getting rich off the backs of artists who put the work into making the art. Big artists do get paid. They get contracts.
I don’t understand this logic. By this logic if I listen to 10 songs from an album 100 times, that’s 101000.003, that’s 3$. I pay the artists in perpetuity, isn’t it better? If I buy an album, I pay once and never again.
This has been basically true to various degrees with every recorded medium from albums (regardless of 8-track, vinyl, cassette, cd), radio, and streaming. Their income has always been supported by merch and concerts. If this bothers you, put your money where your mouth is and go to their websites, buy merch, and attend tons of concerts. Doing anything else supports them being underpaid.
Did everyone forget that artists of any type are creatives?
In no corner of this planet are you expected to DESERVE anything for a personal creative project, so the fact any streaming service pays out ANYTHING or even plays the music is already a benefit the artist didn’t have beforehand.
Oh no, im sorry that my convenience and financial status is making millionaire artists so little money. Man whatchu worried about, as if any of the top artists are missing out on money.
Ah man the comments 💀 they’re not only shafting their artists, they really have no respect for their listeners or their employees, I know cause I worked there, I can’t say much unfortunately
Buy merch
I buy albums.
Change the name to r/retardedtakes
i prefer to pay to Swedish company than any of the american giving the current political situation
Artists should stop accepting bad record deals where their label agrees to stream their music for pennies. It’s not on us.
Yes.
One good live gig typically has given me more profit from selling music (not even talking about merch) than Spotify has ever given me in a lifetime. If the band is not coming to play live near you – check if they have a Bandcamp. Even after the Epic takeover, they’re still the most artist-friendly way of getting digital music.
Don’t even get me started about the shithead CEO of Spotify, who has the nerve of basically telling artists that they should adapt by releasing slop every month, so that it’s easier to monetize: https://www.nme.com/news/music/spotify-ceo-says-its-not-enough-for-artists-to-release-albums-every-3-4-years-2719272
Maybe while I’m at it I should film some Tik Toks and get an OnlyFans started to “promote my brand”, instead of writing and playing music. “Continuously engage” on my balls, Daniel Spotify.
Sweet summer child. How far we have come from the Napster and Lime Wire days.
I would love to see The Andrews Sisters live, but I’m not at a WW2 USO show.
Idgaf
Spotify is for me only good for one thing: I can grab a clean 640×640 album art from them. Google search for album/track and then “spotify”, going to the search tab and grab the thing. Better than those awful Discogs cover scans and photos ^^
Else: I don’t stream music. I have a highly curated local library on my disks and I rather pay for a few gems than have tons of rubbish for a monthly fee. Discovering happens via Discogs or Youtube.
Eh this is really between the artists, labels, and streaming services. I support artists I love by attending concerts and buying their records and merch. I’ve used Spotify since I was a teenager. It will simply take too long to get another streaming service to understand my tastes the way that Spotify does at this point. Spotify algorithm knowing and understanding my tastes gets me introduced to smaller indie artists that I likely would have never heard otherwise regularly also and I would lose that for the foreseeable future by waiting for some other service to figure me out. Is that selfish of me? Probably and maybe I would feel bad about that if I wasn’t supporting in other ways but I am so I don’t feel bad.
No stat on YouTube music?