Re:Justice at Spotify
by paxys on Tuesday March 16, 2021 @02:30PM
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If you are an indie artist (no record label deals) and agree to Spotify's terms, how are major labels involved at all? How are they getting the payouts meant for you?
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Deezer explains it well here:
Well the size of the pie is still the same in this plan. All it would do is shuffle the money around a little bit, so some artists earn less and others more. The top demand from the linked campaign is for Spotify to pay out >3x what they currently do to artists, which is a completely different (and much more significant) ask.
That's exactly my point. I'm not arguing for the 1c/stream the OP is, rather to follow Deezer's model. Major labels are pocketing money that indies earned (and if you look into it they're not actually paying all of it out to their artists either). With this change indies won't be well paid, but they'll be paid fairly.
and why sign a deal or agree to terms that you don't agree to? Just don't go to Spotify?
Tell that to listeners. Many artists don't list themselves there for that reason, but you're penalized for it because Spotify playlists are increasingly the only way many people access music at all. The do or don't isn't always so black and white.
It's the same problem with the use of WhatsApp. If people want to talk to me there are other means to contact me. It's just that everyone is on WhatsApp. So what choice do I have? Be part of the problem or be excluded from social life.