Piwin -> RE: Pressure comes to bear on free stream platforms (Apr. 13 2017 8:51:34)
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As long as Spotify's model is to pay royalties on the basis of a percentage of total "streams", then regular artists (i.e. artists other than the few big commercial names) are totally screwed by it. Unfortunately, these upcoming decisions won't do anything to change that. The only rationale I can see for puting your music on Spotify is to gain some visibility in an attempt to bring in new listeners who just might purchase your music elsewhere. But it's not a money maker. For most of us, we'd make more selling one album on BandCamp or a few tracks on iTunes then anything we could ever hope to get from Spotify. But even if Spotify no longer provided free streaming services, then people would just switch to one of those barely legal P2P sites, and there's no winning against those. When one goes down (latest was Grooveshark I think?), then another just picks up right where they left off.
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