Thanks to Joe Rogan, People Forced to Notice That Spotify Sucks
Music lovers actually have a lot of options when it comes to streaming services. All of them are better than Spotify.
Besides hosting Rogan and apparently being unwilling to reconsider that deal, Spotify notoriously pays artists like shit. Musician-advocacy groups like Union of Musicians and Allied Workers have highlighted just how unfair it's payout to artists is per stream. According to their data, in order to earn a dollar off of streaming a single song, you’d have to play it 236 times.
Other streaming services offer much fairer payouts. Apple Music pays one cent per stream, which is what UMAW is asking Spotify to match, and Tidal likely pays the same, and offers ways for listeners to pay even more to the artists they listen to. Since Young removed his music from Spotify, musicians have taken to social media to highlight exactly how unfair the relationship with Spotify is:
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It should be noted that none of the major streaming music services that currently exist are good, exactly; it’s just that by almost every metric, Spotify is a lot worse than all its direct competitors. These include tech giants like Apple, Amazon, and Square, which owns Tidal, so the streaming service should have a huge well of goodwill for its product. Instead, in terms of how it pays artists and presents their work, Spotify has opted to be even worse than the companies that have used child labor, let their workers die in a warehouse during a tornado, or gone all-in on cryptocurrencies.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/5dg58q/thanks-to-joe-rogan-people-forced-to-notice-that-spotify-sucks
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