Spotify is first music streaming service to surpass 200M paid subscribers

Re:Spotify is first music streaming service to surpass 200M ... by californical on Wednesday February 01, 2023 @03:08AM (#34607802)

Just a theory, but I bet they (and Spotify) are sticking to songs that cost them less per play, when you get stuck on a group like this

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Re:Spotify is first music streaming service to surpass 200M ... by bluepizza on Wednesday February 01, 2023 @04:15AM (#34608229)

There is no song that costs more. Labels are paid by the amount of streams they get in total. The distribution of money is made by the labels.

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Re:Spotify is first music streaming service to surpass 200M ... by hnburnsy on Wednesday February 01, 2023 @12:18PM (#34613856)

I wonder if the streaming services considered favoring longer songs to save on per stream fees.

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Re:Spotify is first music streaming service to surpass 200M ... by skeeter2020 on Friday February 03, 2023 @10:55AM (#34642757)

Doesn't everyone just say "Play me one of the songs that someone else on the same CDN edge node recently listened to"? :)

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Re:Spotify is first music streaming service to surpass 200M ... by bluepizza on Tuesday February 07, 2023 @06:37AM (#34691423)

It wouldn't save fees, because what Spotify does is allocate a percentage of their income to pay artists, and that's it. So whichever way this income is allocated, they are paying the same amount of money anyway.

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