Looking forward to your write up on “how to fail at Spotify and enjoy yourself”.

Edit: clickbaity: “How to Bomb Spotify”

"Stupefy by Spotify as a Service" : a mentorship service to protect those who get stupefied by spotify

It's sad to admit but there are enough musicians in the world. The reason wages for musicians is so low is that there are already countless professional musicians making music in every style.

Maybe, but I think it could be better if Spotify paid artists per listen instead of just paying them for being popular.

Also Spotify is definitely missing a lot of obscure music and there definitely aren’t enough live musicians. Otherwise I could afford to have a good band play live in my living room every Sunday morning.

Yes, I don't think Spotify is the optimal conclusion of the music industry.

> It's sad to admit but there are enough musicians in the world.

There was a time when you had to have two mediocre gifts to make it: talent and beauty. Or just have one of those gifts, but in spades. It seems like there's a lot more mediocre talent now, since we've evolved to devalue beauty.

Musicians might be the most saturated field but I think this is true for most things. How many millions of artists or photographers put out their art for piddling views and even less money. Even genuinely amazing artists can be absolutely unheard of. Authors also fall into this category.

$2 a year might have been enough to live a middle class life back in ......

What's the conversion rate for the Roman sesterces in 44BC to USD?

You can’t have it at $2/year though - my distributor only cuts a check when you reach the $20 threshold. I had forgotten I had music on there by the time the check showed up!

Based on other accounts, this might be the common outcome of publishing on Spotify. While this article sums up the artist's experience very well, it could feed into aspiring artists' survivorship bias.

On a lighter note, I think The Onion captured the reality of incomes on Spotify very well by this captioned picture: https://local.theonion.com/band-blows-entire-spotify-royalty...