Today, Spotify accounts for roughly 30% of recorded music revenue.

More artists get more money from Spotify than from anywhere else

Last post from me, I’m not here to educate every left wing boomer

I don’t know if it’s stealing but I feel better knowing when I listen to music artists get paid

As someone else pointed out:

Today, Spotify accounts for roughly 30% of recorded music revenue.

That’s a lot of artists making music we enjoy who are able to eat at night

Paying spotify to punish artists and pay industry bodies who in turn funnel money to rightoid hate groups is worse than starving artists.

Let me know how suing people for downloading music on Limewire works out for you

Also, most artists get fuck all from Spotify or any of the streamers

There’s more music released every minute that can be listened to in a lifetime, this is what happens when supply outstrips demand

Fuck it, real fans steal the music and turn up to gigs.

That’s cool and all but not every artist does gigs and most people don’t go to them, so there needs to be something for the other 99% of people, which conveniently, is called Spotify or Qobuz

holy shit 30%? fark me that’s huge!

What was your point though?

Because you’re still listening to their music ? Do you buy the merch of thousands of producers who make ambient music? Do I need to have the ambient track hit me in a way that all the others don’t before they are worthy of being paid?

Even if that would be true

They’re a public company, feel free to look up their financial reports

it’s complicated, it’s based on what plan the person listening to you is on (people on the free ad supported plan pay the least, those on premium the most), what country you’re in (poorer countries payout less), what % of total streams you’re getting, what your label has negotiated with you, etcetc

https://dittomusic.com/en/blog/how-much-does-spotify-pay-per-stream

Getting rid of the ad supported plan would raise the average payouts quite a bit but Spotify has argued it is better to keep the plan and have people only pay for a little bit than return to the old days of music piracy where artists were getting nothing and had resorted to the RIAA suing people

I don’t care for podcasts at all, it’s just because they’re adjacent to the app I use the most that I stumbled upon them, the ones I listen to don’t have ads except the abc’s if you’re listening and it’s what, 30 seconds for something I listen to maybe once a month?

Podcasters that upload to Spotify have the option of inserting ads and making money from this

Most of my podcasts don’t but some do, actually I think the ABC is the only one that does, and it says if you don’t want to hear advertising use their podcast app, so maybe it’s a way of punishing us for not using their app

Then again besides the ABC’s If you’re listening all my other podcasts are french language learning ones…

Lots of artists make millions, it’s just that music is so easy to make these days that there is more artists and songs than ever, more music gets released in a day than in the entire year 1985, so you need to be somewhat vaguely popular to make decent money, you can’t just make a few songs and expect to live off the royalties, there’s 12 year olds releasing music these days

what about the bands you don’t like? I assume they subscribe to your free with no ads and no money plan?

paying artists nothing is worse than paying them a little

I’m not here to explain how spotify payouts work, you need to actually look that up for yourself

they get 70% of it, 30% goes to spotify

same as steam store, apple store etc

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they/them explaining how their insane card system works doesn’t make it better? explaining how your oppression olympics works is still insanity

Heritage Foundation trying to find ways to bring back lynchings

???

This only appears absurd because you’re getting a rare glimpse of LGBTQ+ and neurodivergents trying to self govern.

???

You’re like yes it’s nuts but it’s not regular nuts, it’s rainbow coloured nuts 😶

Having people being able to skip to the front of the queue based on the colour of their skin or disability, as though it was some kind of hierarchy of the oppressed is nuts

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPLQNUVmq3o

this is a cult, it’s like a weird reverse powergrab, the one that’s the most hardest done by gets to bark orders at everyone about how they should behave

I guess the only downside is how frigging huge it is.

Yep :D

I saw 5.1 came out however it required a data centre to run :X

Hoping to see if they release smaller models how they do

I’m using was released at the beginning of August 2025 (From an LLM development perspective, it feels like an eternity to me)

I mean yeah, more than 6 months in AI world is an eternity 🤣

the big ones are gemma 4 and qwen 3.5

I’m using Gemma 4 and it works really really well, it’s sad to me that I’m using big tech’s model but it’s just so far ahead of mistral and others that I have no choice

Qwen is really good with thinking turned off, turned on it has a massive overthinking problem, like you say “hi” and it’ll think for 3 minutes on how best to reply

Still waiting for Deepseek to come out with v4 at this stage but Gemma 4 is my current sota self hosted model