He's exaggerating, of course, but it does raise an interesting point: Spotify is one of the worst when it comes to royalties per stream, at about 3 or 4 tenths of a cent per stream (which goes to the label, and the label then pays the artist in accordance with their record contract).
Other services (Amazon Music, Tidal) pay around 1 cent per stream, or 3x more than Spotify.
I subscribe to Qobuz, which pays about 4 cents per stream, or more than ten times more than Spotify.
Al seems to be (subtly) pointing out that we as consumers actually do have some say over how much of our monthly fee goes to pay the artists who actually create the content that we want to listen two, and not just to the services themselves.
He's exaggerating, of course, but it does raise an interesting point:
ReplyDeleteSpotify is one of the worst when it comes to royalties per stream, at about 3 or 4 tenths of a cent per stream (which goes to the label, and the label then pays the artist in accordance with their record contract).
Other services (Amazon Music, Tidal) pay around 1 cent per stream, or 3x more than Spotify.
I subscribe to Qobuz, which pays about 4 cents per stream, or more than ten times more than Spotify.
Al seems to be (subtly) pointing out that we as consumers actually do have some say over how much of our monthly fee goes to pay the artists who actually create the content that we want to listen two, and not just to the services themselves.
https://soundcharts.com/blog/music-streaming-rates-payouts
https://community.roonlabs.com/t/qobuz-giving-more-back-to-the-artists-than-other-services/125013