Eyekaytee
@Eyekaytee@aussie.zone
- Comment on 'Technofascist military fantasy': Spotify faces boycott calls over CEO’s investment in AI military startup 2 weeks ago:
What I didn’t go into depths to describe is that the vast majority of their money goes to big labels and several big artists
Yes, that’s how the algo works, unfortunately most people have no taste in music, if the people suddenly decide that avant garde orchestral metal is popular, then those artists will make more money as their plays and share of the pie goes up
So, they continue to give most artists, especially small/new artists next to nothing, exploiting them.
Welcome to the music industry m8
Published June 14, 2000 7:02PM (EDT)
So their profit is $6.6 million; the band may as well be working at a 7-Eleven.
www.salon.com/2000/06/14/love_7/
That said this is a very specific argument to make, you said
Spotify’s whole business model is exploitation.
Now you’re saying, yes many people make lots of money and I saw no disagreement that the music industry raking in 10 billion in a year benefits from Spotify BUT new and non-popular artists find it tough to make money and that’s exploitation
In 2024, More Music Is Released in a Single Day Now Than in All of 1989
The algorithm is simple, the more listens you get, the bigger the pie you have, the more you get paid.
The reality is that small/new artists are now competing in a field that is flooded, it’s hard to complain of exploitation if you are simply trying to swim in an ocean and finding it difficult
It sucks but this is life in the 21st century with computers, it’s also not going to get better with AI allowing people who can’t work photoshop to make pictures and people who can’t work logic pro to make music
I also give Spotify credit for music discovery: aussie.zone/post/19441027/16055498
It has never been easier for people to go outside the box and discover new music, it’s just a shame most people don’t
- Comment on 'Technofascist military fantasy': Spotify faces boycott calls over CEO’s investment in AI military startup 2 weeks ago:
It pays four tenths of a tenth of a cent per stream ($0.004), while raking in billions of profit each year.
I think you’re confusing Spotify with Apple or Google, It only just last year:
Spotify Just Turned an Annual Profit for the First Time Ever
thedailyupside.com/…/spotify-just-turned-an-annua…
This is the same year it paid out
its collective payments to the music industry for 2024 totaled $10 billion.
10 billion not bad for a business model that’s “exploitation”
One of the things people struggle to understand is that it’s not the 70’s anymore, there is more music being uploaded every minute that you can listen to in a year, this has a diluting effect on the value of the thing being uploaded
Listen to music on whatever service, then if you like the artists music - buy the album, or the track / single. Sure, you may support fewer artists this way, but each artist gets paid literally 2500 times as much (album averages 9.99).
I do agree with this though
- Comment on BYD is testing solid-state EV batteries in its Seal sedan with nearly 1,200 miles of range 3 weeks ago:
if a choice between china and south korea i’m going korea every time, the difference between co2 emissions is staggering
- Comment on BYD is testing solid-state EV batteries in its Seal sedan with nearly 1,200 miles of range 3 weeks ago:
1930kms
that’s a lot of range
- Comment on Activision Quietly Force Adverts into Call of Duty Black Ops 6 and Warzone Loadouts and Players Absolutely Hate It: 'At This Point It Really Feels Like Opening Up a Mobile Game' 1 month ago:
It’s like a mobile game!
Yes
- Comment on Massive X data leak affects over 200 million users. 3 months ago:
Comes from previous leaks back in 2022 so no big deal, your probably already on haveibeenpwned.com