since when does cuba have 8 billion dollars laying around

edit: nvm they want the rest of the world to pay for it 🤣

yes and they’re all wrong, from the linux losers who pirate and then rarely if ever buy music but virtue signal like they buy music on the daily to the bandcampers who have the music discovery capabilities of limewire and have to spend significantly more time finding music to listen to

wrong about how much spotify pays out because they don’t know the calculations behind it

they complain about low payouts while simultaneously using spotify free/ad supported which is bottom tier in payouts to artists, there’s even posts here linking to ways to ad block on spotify free so instead of artists getting a tiny bit they get nothing? and they’re preaching to me ???

they’re wrong about timelines, record stores and software support

what a pain i can think for myself 😮‍💨

the only one i’ll give credit to is qobuz but fuck me are they vegan cunts about it, nyeh im using qobuz because i’m better than spotify users nyeh

i am not most people, as you saw i listen to a shitload of music, some i like, some i don’t, some im ambivalent about, i support them all the same

you can see my listening stats here https://www.last.fm/user/ikt123

Spotify is the only subscription I have and I find it immense value supporting artists and discovering new music

ty for asking :)

just how rich do you think i am? you think i can afford to go through 10’s of thousands of back catalogs trying to find the music im listening to to buy?

god damn boomers

how did you to come across as a fuckstick and somehow not read what i said

It also pays artists much better so… Yeah.

https://tidal.com/pricing

I can’t see any free tier, does this mean you’re telling the OP and all free users of Spotify to get fucked?

It’s unofficially done by some Devs in their free time

For all intents and purposes it’s the same client, I see no difference between the ‘official’ client on Windows and the Linux version

compares tpb to spotify 🤣 fark these boomers so out of touch

damn you’re so mad, you should demand a refund for all $0 you’re paying them

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6048DIIHRMegUg0IHm7T5m

How do you propose I recompense all the artists on this playlist for example?

That’s 8,902 songs

I duno, how do you guys find new music to listen to?

Sometimes I’ll just put a playlist on with 1000 tracks in it, maybe a couple I like, most are ok, some of them i skip, in my world they all get paid, in your world only a tiny tiny fraction of them do

I can’t find anything on this at all

Damn your memory really goes like this

1. People going down to the record store to buy CD’s

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3. Spotify :D

You really missed out a whole decade of music piracy and CD sales falling through the floor

There used to be plenty of music stores where you could listen to the music before you bought it. They all died because of Spotify.

Incorrect, the answer we were after is Napster

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