Spotify Saved the Music Industry (But Not Necessarily Musicians)

Re:Spotify Saved the Music Industry (But Not Necessarily Mus... by geden on Friday April 12, 2019 @01:39PM (#19647126)

Spotify has had a severe and negative effect on musicians who make what I term 'peak experience music'. Amazing music, but not something you listen to every day. Say you listen once a month or even just a few times a year.

Before: 2 listens = dealer price of a CD in UK = about £7.5 (on a good UK indie that's split 50/50 with the artist).

Now: 2 listens = income from 2 streams on Spotify = about £0.0006

I'm thinking of artists like Autechre.

Spotify is starting the shape the sort of music that artists can be successful with, in a bad way.

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Re:Spotify Saved the Music Industry (But Not Necessarily Mus... by pertsix on Friday April 12, 2019 @02:30PM (#19647670)

This is not true/unfair interpretation.

An artist does not get paid after the first payment from the label from the sale of a CD. If you play the CD on repeat, the artist does not benefit, nor does the label.

/Labels/ get paid for every single listen on Spotify.

There is also Spotify Direct, too, and the artist can directly benefit more than if they went with a label.

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Re:Spotify Saved the Music Industry (But Not Necessarily Mus... by geden on Sunday April 14, 2019 @04:29PM (#19661515)

You appear to have missed the point. I'm singling out a genre of music where you might only listen to an album a few times. So repeat plays are irrelevant.

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Re:Spotify Saved the Music Industry (But Not Necessarily Mus... by kzrdude on Friday April 12, 2019 @03:24PM (#19648161)

Maybe pay per play is not fair, payout shouldn't be linearly proportional to number of plays!

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Re:Spotify Saved the Music Industry (But Not Necessarily Mus... by syrrim on Friday April 12, 2019 @08:52PM (#19650349)

huh? is label revenue unrelated to artist revenue?

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Re:Spotify Saved the Music Industry (But Not Necessarily Mus... by GuiA on Friday April 12, 2019 @02:10PM (#19647445)

If you care about an artist, buy things from them. Records, tee shirts, posters, concert tickets, etc. Streaming revenue is essentially a rounding error.

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Re:Spotify Saved the Music Industry (But Not Necessarily Mus... by neves on Friday April 12, 2019 @02:34PM (#19647707)

I spend less music in streaming than before, but surely a lot of people didn't spend US$20 each month in music

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Re:Spotify Saved the Music Industry (But Not Necessarily Mus... by wolco on Friday April 12, 2019 @03:03PM (#19647962)

In 1999 at the peak the average person spent $28 now the average person spends less than 15.

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