Spotify Saved the Music Industry (But Not Necessarily Musicians)

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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