Got 10k streams on a song I owned 100% of rights to and only made like $30

wonderful business!

You’re defrauding/stealing by manually streaming the song. It may just fall in a grey area and not be illegal, idk

Wow, great point! Get to sucking!

money through streaming as never a very profitable business

even paying 5-6 cents a stream means companies would be shelling billions a day while forcing people to pay 60-70 a month

tiny brain posting itt

surprised i didn’t see a price increase

Man f*** off, it's not exploitation when all parties are in it voluntarily and all benefiting.

Im tired of people who don't know s*** about business and economics, living in fairy tail land, thinking they know how to run the world better while criticizing everything, just because they think they are virtuous.

nah even as these companies grow their payout per stream is only gonna grow marginally since even minor adjustments mean you’re paying more for the billions of streams your hosting

except for the artist ... The biggest worker

try learning how to spell tail in the right context before trying to stick up for bullshit business practices

They can bring a civil suit against you vice.com/en/article/v7gmvd/spotify-sues-self-described-music-prodigy-who-allegedly-ran-royalties-scam

Although the people I know who be scamming spotify just get their account disabled and their money withheld. It's not worth it for them to take you to court unless you ran off with millions at least.

ok cool-lil b

why cant their f***ing employer pay them fair enough wage so anything that i do decide to buy is just an add on
no wait the label sees a piece of merch and show money too

i don’t think apple needs an increase unless they really want to, and believe me, they would if they could. tho it’s probably more profitable than spotify is, maybe not

@PlayboiCarti I will stream harder for you, senpai!

You cant complain about artists not getting enough if ur not paying s*** besides listening to ads

Jesus christ 😮

Fair is relative to total income and operational expenditure.

I know Spotify made an announcement that they would be leveraging the GCP and at that scale, it ain’t exactly cheap.

I’d have to see a complete breakdown of costs tbh, and given that streaming has historically been a losing venture, I doubt it would do much for the artists

Baaaaaaaaaaaaaandcaaaaaaaamp

wack

!!!

No wonder artist out here doing billions of collabs. Travis hustling. Rihanna smart as hell and Drake smart for producing a lot of films and shows

Tbh the only good argument against this, is saying apple and Spotify are monopoly and they are forced people are forced to work with them. I just dont think that's the case, I think that it's just music is such a low barrier to entry, anyone can make music. Thus it's reflected in the compensation.

At the end artist get paid more if only customer are willing to pay more. And clearly they don't.