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...So I Finally Quit Spotify (oliviarafferty.substack.com)
submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago (2 children)

And in 2024, Spotify will stop paying out songs which get less than 1000 streams in a year. Which means for me, as an artist in the early stages of my career, I am going to get paid nothing. I could get over 1000 streams on all my songs in total, but still get paid nothing. I could get 999 streams on a song one year and 999 streams on it the next year… and still get paid nothing.

As the author states in the previous paragraph, Spotify pays 0.003c per stream. I don't think the author has done the maths. 1000 streams equals 3c. He's complaining over not getting paid 3c as if that will fund his career

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago

It's not 0.003¢ per steam, it's $0.003. (Actually £0.003, per that article.)

So 1000 streams should pay $3.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Your 3c (or $3, whatever) might not be much but they're saving that across thousands and thousands of small artists so for them it's another lucrative way of skimming the profits of the actual creators for themselves.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

From what I read, it's more about stopping people using auto generated songs and uploading thousands of songs