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Re:Carving out a niche as a small artist on Spotify by rewgs on Friday June 26, 2020 @06:16PM (#23657683)
What do you mean by the term “indie” here? Are the stations themselves not affiliated with larger corporations? Or are they mainly playing independent artists? Or both?

I’m a professional musician and categorically reject the “but at least it is possible to be heard at all” angle. No. That is bullshit. Spotify is replacing BOTH album sales and radio play, and yet it pays multiple orders of magnitude worse than either.

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Re:Carving out a niche as a small artist on Spotify by zdragnar on Friday June 26, 2020 @09:07PM (#23658695)
That's fair; I am not a musician and have no thoughts on whether spotify or youtube or Amazon whatever or physical records are best.

As to your first question, I think in my area it is both, though I was mainly thinking in terms of "stations that dont play top 10 or 40 hip hop / pop / country / faux rock".

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