whatever will the millionaires do???

    • newIdentity@sh.itjust.works
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      It’s actually the lables that are ripping off the artists.

      Spotify isn’t profitable. They’re constantly losing money

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          The core service which is music streaming will never be able to make spotify profitable. The problem which podcast is that they are badly integrated in spotify, it should be a seperate app instead

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        It’s actually the lables that are ripping off the artists.

        As is tradition.

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        Not all artists have labels, there are a lot of independents and getting 0.001 cents per play from Spotify is basically robbery compared to what sites like SoundCloud will pay per stream…

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          I’d like sources for these claims. What I’ve found online as average:

          Soundcloud 0.0025 - 0.004$ per stream

          Spotify 0.003 - 0.005 per stream

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      Streaming services will never be able to able to pay artists fairely. We should return to buying music