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Spotify doesn't make profit from music streaming, despite having over 400M monthly active users, because it pays two-thirds of all its revenue to the rights holders. (open.substack.com)

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

This is why I thought some of their recent actions that hurt the lowest played artists was strange, you want to encourage artists to NOT use the big publishers to help break their triopoly.

I think the most recent changes are fine in practice, but the optics are not great which probably matters a lot.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Exactly, Spotify is stuck between pleasing artists and the big publishers.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Even the smallest artists are making more than 1000 streams yearly. The only ones they are hurting are AI generated songs.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

FYI it's 1000 per track per year, not per artist.

I agree though, I went through my instrumental playlist which has loads of indi stuff and the smallest I found had 10,000 plays

Edit - looks like I got a notification for this 4 days late....