fortune.com/2025/01/27/spotify-multi-year-deal-universal-music-publisher-agreement-bundle-rollout

Thank you Kendrick

Im tired boss

Broke Bois still using Spotify?

Between this and the stock market for artist royalties… Stan culture is gonna be at an all-time high in the 2030s isn’t it

WASHED

“priority access” and “early access” should not even be in the conversation when it comes to music

“If streaming is so great, how come they never made a sequel?”

“early access to new music”

FOH

i wonder how this will play out, given how all the major labels came together to abolish DSP exclusivity some years ago

They gotta combat the early NZ leak syndrome somehow

that’s their fault which is funny

It won't help lmao. If anything it'll make it worse. More people have access to rip it

i imagine this actually wont benefit small artists in the slightest despite "higher royalty payouts"

We just all need to go back to piracy.

Streaming II: Bloodlines

The piracy "problem" is just a customer service problem

Remember when Apple had the exclusives? Remember how that turned out?

I love giving more money to millionaires

like tf are we doing here

And how would this work?

Do you pay one extra fee and get these extras for ALL artists? Or is it going to be you pay like say $5 just to Taylor Swift for example?