I opened Spotify this morning to be greeted by a modal popup with a “sponsored recommendation”.
Why am I seeing ads if I’m already paying for the premium plan!? 😑
I opened Spotify this morning to be greeted by a modal popup with a “sponsored recommendation”.
Why am I seeing ads if I’m already paying for the premium plan!? 😑
So if Spotify pays artists so poorly (I’m not claiming they don’t), then why do those artists stay on the platform? I have no qualms about using my paid Spotify account. I don’t really care how much they pay artists as long as they are paying artists.
Critical mass. They remove their songs from Spotify and the likelyhood of people changing platforms to keep listening to them is next to zero.
No streaming platforms pay well. Are you saying that artists should pull out of all streaming services? How would new artists get their music to a general audience?
I’m saying artists seem to be doing fine. If they don’t like how much Spotify is paying them, they are welcome to pull their music from the platform and put it in other places.
The choice is between getting paid pennies but with some exposure vs not getting paid at all with zero exposure. Obviously Spotify is the better choice, but it doesn’t mean that it’s a good choice for artists trying to make a living.
You have no idea what you’re talking about. What you’re saying is basically a “you criticize society yet you live in it” argument. The artists that you perceive as doing fine are the ones making money off of ticket and merch sales. This is where Spotify as a marketing opportunity comes in. You need a following to sell tickets and merch. Basically your only option to garner a following is to put your music in the places where people consume it most.
In a past thread on this topic, I’ve seen a few indie artists say that they benefit because Spotify amplifies their audience. They make crap on the streams, but a larger audience base is worth the trade-off since they’ll be able to sell more concert tickets and merchandise.
Spotify has definitely helped me to discover new artists, but then I mostly listen to that artist on Spotify (Mostly because I’m not in their country.)
One of my arguments is that inde artists and creators are as responsible for the enshitification of the internet as companies like google and Facebook are. They both are invested in making the internet into some global bazaar instead of a library.
How so?
Honestly spotify should really let small artists make their pages more interesting.