Spotify Did Another Bad Thing
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- Опубликовано: 31 май 2024
- Spotify to Pay Songwriters About $150 Million Less Next Year with Premium, Duo, Family Plan Changes: www.billboard.com/business/st...
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These music streaming CEOs seem to forget that I grew up pirating music, and only switched sides for ease of use.
If that's the reason, why would this make you want to switch back?
That part.
I think they know that intimately well, and that you are very unlikely to go back.
@@gabrielkrivian8453it's easy
Honestly blows my mind that people don't just download the song straight from youtube. Stop, you can even just press share and press on the app you use and poof
The consequences of subscription based media services has been a disaster for the human race
Holy shit Is that an "Industrial Society and Its Future by Theodore John Krasinski. Introduction. 1." Reference!!!
It’s a great excuse to turn people’s priorities into rented increments.
@@wowzercowzeram406 Um actually Kaczynski 🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓☝☝☝☝☝☝☝☝👆👆👆👆👆👆
@@wowzercowzeram406 did you just mix up The Unabomber and Jim from the Office?
@@yaboibeansthey’re not the same guy?
idk if you've talked about this before on the channel, but near the beginning of the year, they made a change to the Spotify for Artists app where you can no longer see how many streams your song has gotten overall unless it has at least 1k streams. This is such a horrible thing for small artists like myself, who never get over 1k streams, but would still like to see what songs do better than others, which songs I could try to boost streams on, maybe some of these numbers would be surprising, but I can't see that because they removed the feature to see the overall streams for songs with less than 1k streams, and i don't get it, it makes no sense
Genuinely what's the reasoning behind that? That doesn't make any sense. Are they cutting on data costs by no longer tracking streams unless they cross 1K? How does anyone benefit from that?
@@sebarus8108 My guess is that they allowed the UI team to "streamline" things by rounding everything to the nearest thousand and just never even considered the effects it would have on small artists.
They simply don't put any thought into caring about small artists.
@@NihongoWakannai they don't round
this hasn't happened to me, my song still shows how many streams it has even though it has under 1000 streams
@@NihongoWakannai IIRC it's because they don't want to pay for streams under that limit
Spotify not doing greedy things challenge (IMPOSSIBLE)
These days you don’t even hear the term “starving artist” anymore - because it’s the norm. Most of your favorite artists have full-time jobs on top of their music, yet corporations are making record profits. The record industry is a parasite.
Services like Spotify are not a part of the recording industry. They are an enemy of the recording industry, like they are an enemy of the artist, the consumer, and culture as a whole.
The record industry has been a parasite for a century. Ain't nothing new. Just new players.
It's always been the norm. How you going to make money contributing nothing to society
@@ictogon the artists contribute nothing but streaming services that use them contribute by how?
@@banko-xv4rt I didn't say they did
We could all just go back to buying CDs and records exclusively but music is basically valueless to people now and I’m as guilty of it as anyone
Same. I was principled and bought music albums on Apple till I realised that not only am I spending 500€ per year I still feel like I’m only able to buy a fraction of the music i want to own and listen to. So in the end I used the Spotify student discount cuz I’m a Brokie.
I still get cds for newer albums i love
None of my favorite artists are big enough to distribute cds worldwide
PWYW systems are great. If you're kinda eh on an artist you don't pay them but they get streams and boosted in algorithms, if you really like an artist you can donate as much money as you want to them.
Honestly, it's easier said than done for where I come from. I'd buy CDs if I could afford them, but international artists? I can always pirate, but I still want to support the outside of RUclips. & unfortunately Spotify's one of the only apps I can afford that.
Bro just listen music through an illegal handmade connection to the radio tower of the old town
ok but how will i keep my horse fed during the winter? aint no grass growin'
This is unironically how hold music was invented
@@vanillagorillaoghay brother
@@phoenixjones7191 hey 👋
you jest but pirate radio is 't THAT hard to set up
There's an extra level of bs to this, in that the premium audio book service that they're taking all this money from artists for only offers you a measly 15 hours of listening a month, which if you're an avid audiobook listener is nothing. If you want extra hours before the month's end you have to give them EVEN MORE money
I learned this the hard way, I found a book trilogy all in one that I started listening to it is 66 hours. The first book alone is around 20, and the anger I felt having to be told I'm not allowed to listen to the thing I paid to listen to is immeasurable
That's so nonsensical. As an audiobook listener, I have no idea why they thought that would be competive with audible or free library apps like Libby or Hoopla
@@teddybear97597 hopefully you learned your lesson
That is effing insane
It's SO fucking expensive too. I remember listening to Gideon the Ninth over the course of a few days at work to try out audiobooks and I exhausted all of themin less than two weeks. They charge more for a 10 hour listening top up than they do for a month of music streaming! Wait, maybe not anymore...
Don’t use Spotify for audio books. Use the library. Always. Use. The. Library.
THIS! Everyone reading this please go to a local library its one of life's greatest joys.
If you want audiobooks, do Libby! It's free from your local library
Libby is incredible
"the number one enemy of music today is Spotify"
just so damn fricking true
What about the much maligned AI?
@@Mindphaser1AI is not an actual threat to music
@@DJG_Studios in a way it is tho. It can eventually get so good we won't know if the actual artist is releasing a track or if it is an A.I track. Obviously it hasn't been happening quite yet as it's usually pretty noticeable if it is A.I but it is improving exponentially so it's possible that sooner than later we won't be able to notice a difference between real artists and A.I. Which will not be good.
@@Mindphaser1 Spotify is way worse. It's a huge scam. AI is like phones, it has it's benefits and downsides equally
@@Red2332 I don’t think AI will ever get to a point where we won’t be able to tell between it and another musician. AI can’t do a live show in person, or hangout with anyone in person. And it just ain’t got no soul.
Edit: also, one big thing about music, it’s fun. People will keep making music, regardless of AI, just because it’s fun.
As an Independent artist I took all if my work off Spotify quite a while ago. The disrespect is unfathomable. The future just looks grim for artists and there's very little action from the biggest artists right now against this bullshit.
Where one can find your music now,if you don't mind sharing?
( I'm not aware of the better alternatives, I'm from different country)
@@4kach24 Bandcamp. And I'm about to start posting on SoundCloud as well.
@@4kach24 Bandcamp is a great place to buy music from artists at a reasonable price and with the least amount of bullshit involved.
I feel as though it’s the most effective way for me to get my songs to people, I don’t want fame but I’d like more than 7 people to hear it
They're owned by their labels, the big ones are sitting comfy and don't want to change that, especially right now in such a volatile economy where homelessness and death is just a paycheck away
Classic predatory pricing.. They drop prices low enough where they dominate the industry, choking out competition.. Then once most competitors are gone and users get used to it, they raise prices.
Spotify also paywalled lyrics..... So I guess for any Spotify users that have auditory processing disorders they now can't use literal subtitles without buying premium 😐
You can always Google them with Spotify in the background
paywalling incorrect lyrics.
I'm so used to Spotify dropping the ball on lyrics UX that I've been defaulting to Genius and azlyrics for years. You'd think this greediness would justify itself with better service at some point
While I agree, no streaming service actually transcribes accurately because they usually don't pay people and have an incentive to censor lyrics
@@potato44_ bro spotify, apple, youtube and any other streaming device is using musixmatch lyrics so they all have the same lyrics across
BOLD PREDICTION.
Spotify will change up their subscription where you can choose what genres you want to listen to. Like how cable and cable packages were back in the day.
I can guarantee this shit will happen
LOL that's a wild prediction but not counting it out
Reinventing cable, that’s where we’re heading across all industries lmao
Don't give them any ideas
The fact you can’t download more than 10,000 songs is wack….
What are you doing with 10 000?
It's the principle
i dont think iv even heard that many songs
@raphaeltembo861 listening
Apple has a 100k limit.
The idea of paying to listen to music on an app made for music listening was always really annoying, also having to pay just to look at the lyrics? I'ma just use RUclips.
Yeah once they added paying for lyrics, that just pissed me off
mf wants none of the artists to make money
@@delphinium1989artists get next to nothing on Spotify
U can still listen to spotify for free.
@@delphinium1989 They're not making much on Spotify
3:35 my guess is that the music labels know they're kind of fucked either way. The reality is that people these days just expect to pay way less money to get way more music and they aren't going to go back. The artists just view recorded music now as an advertisement for live shows, and the few pennies they can get from streaming are still better than piracy or (more likely) nobody listening to the music they make if they decide to ditch the streaming services. I feel like this is a major reason that ticket prices for live shows have shot way up in the past few years compared to what they used to be.
They've shot up because of thing called monopoly. This isn't the result of natural forces or other bs like that
I think ticket prices rising is mainly COVID and the venues fault. The venue usually here the biggest piece of the pie. It’s true though that live shows have gotten more expensive but when you listen to midsize artists explain the numbers they’re saying they make less than they use to. The price hikes for them usually means they break even. On the other hand the bigger artists they can ask insane prices and line their pockets. Seems more and more like we are moving towards a society where only the top wins and the rest is fucked.
@@hansmemling2311no, Monopoly lol
capitalism always has been like this dude
At least in the metal community, this is more or less the status quo- record sales have never been really even a viable consideration for all but a tiny, tiny, tiny handful of overall bands in specific times and places, with particular pockets like the NWOBHM ('79-'85, conventionally speaking), the thrash wave, the early-mid '90s death metal wave, and to some extent the modern trad revival (e.g. Traveler, Visigoth, Eternal Champion, Haunt, comeback acts like Satan, Tygers of Pan Tang, Jag Panzer...) that would briefly float a chunk of a scene; for the most part, and especially over the past 15 years, it's an ecosystem almost entirely built around merch and touring, with a common understanding that piracy, whether it was in the form of trading tapes and bootlegs or the modern format of slinging files back and forth, was more or less omnipresent in the underground, with legitimate physical media purchases being seen more along the lines of a t-shirt or a live show ticket in the sense of deliberately spending to support the band. That said, while metal *festival* tickets and the top-end mainstream metal acts like Metallica or Iron Maiden command a pretty penny, I can go catch 3-5 metal bands a night for like $20, and this isn't exactly uncommon for small venues, even ones booking names with decades of pedigree and backing from larger media and promotion companies such as Decibel, like Bulldozer, Eyehategod, Hulder, DRI, etc. etc.
I thought this was going to be about paywalling lyrics, but hey! shit just keeps piling up!
Ong bro I realized it randomly yesterday and I literally out loud said WTF, they really want me to give up on using their service. Granted I don’t have premium but still
The only semi-way to fund your art nowadays is releasing your own music and therefore bypassing a label, but chances of getting playlisted that way are very slim. So you get fucked by the system either way.
Spotify being an awful company? Nooo you have to be kidding.
Also, without premium, you could listen to an album not on repeat but now you need premium to not off shuffle AND to play a specific song
the amount of double negatives in this comment broke my brain
I had to reread this comment a few times lol
I hate this comment because I don’t understand it
I did notice the other day when I tried to play a song through my mom’s Spotify (she doesn’t use Spotify so no premium) and it wouldn’t even let us play the song, it played a COMPLETELY different song. Literally what’s the point of free Spotify anymore🤦
Here in Berlin Spotify just threw a "music summit" (ticket 150 Euros for a day) with panels like "do the streaming services really pay that bad"... the audacity they have - they should be boycotted completely. Spotify has that totally derailed
Earlier this year they stopped paying out songs with less than 1K streams. You cant even see how many streams a song got if it isnt above 1K.
So stupid for smaller artists.
I hate how much they focus on things other than music too! Aren't you meant to be the music platform? Why the fuck am I seeing a few playlists and the rest of my home page is weirdo podcasts, audiobooks, and now courses?! They do absolutely nothing for musicians
Idk who will read this but I just left a studio session to finish some tracks and get them ready for release. I have accepted that i will never be compensated fairly for my music. But I will make music. I have accepted any money I make will be a drop in the bucket compared to what it costs just to create & distribute my work. But I will distribute it. I have accepted that my art will suffer because I will never get the opportunity to live a stable and healthy life as an artist alone. But I will be an artist.
If you are reading this, do not let the disgusting greed of big tech defeat your pursuit of artistic excellence because when all of these companies are dead and gone, with a single note, you will have contributed more to humanity than they could ever dream.
Well you're one of the ones who has decided to go on, and that's great I seriously envy you... but I'm sure there are many artists who got discouraged and let go of their music dreams because it makes them zero money.
Keep pushing man I’m sure you’ll succeed
In this busy climate of corruption within the music industry, thank you for circling back to the real common enemy here: exploitative streaming platforms and gatekeepers in the industry. Would love to hear you talk more about the 'Living Wage for Musicians Act' as proposed to congress recently.
why dont they just.. um idk charge extra for books and then keep taht pool seperate .
this doesnt make anmy fuckign sense at all.
Because they need to attract the audio book market. They literally are allowing the audiobooks to ripoff artists, literally. Maybe when they have enough audiobook providers they will revert this or something.
(Why would i post an audiobook on spotify to earn less money than any other platform im currently posting?)
remember when they said that the 1,000 stream threshold would help them "increase" earnings for "professional" musicians
Why should I be forced to pay for a service that I will probably never use? They're reclassifying their premium subscriptions as a bundle, and there's no option to opt out? That's gotta be illegal.
Glad i stopped using Spotify at the beginning of the year. How do you manage to be worse than RUclips 🙃
Enshittification really pisses me off
imagine, one day you wake up and your income got nerfed in the latest patch notes
Just because you look like the Spotify ceo doesn't mean you have to make a whole diss track about him
I'm surprised that the labels haven't formed their own streaming service by now. It's a no brainier.
Maybe there’s a monopoly law preventing them being both supplier and producer. Anti competitive law or whatever it’s called maybe applies here? Any lawyers reading this please inform me on this.
Good point, but Netflix and others are doing it with the film/TV.
They are majority shareholders in Spotify, they get paid either way and paying artists less means they pocket more from shares
@@mattmoy24 I thought they sold all their shares the minute spotify became public.
@@MrUnl0rd You are right, thing is though if record labels were to set up their own streaming service they would have to reach agreements on being able to put each other's music up for stream. Perhaps in the musical landscape this is easier said than done. I'd be interested in finding out the why though because being both the producer and distributor in the digital landscape sounds like a no brainer to me.
can we make a meet the grahams for spotify
*ominous yet soulful piano*
Dear spotify,
Your policies are shit, it's something no one can deny
If I lived off the profits that I make from you I'd die,
Your CEO's probably on some Meth, are we surprised?
Believing you is crazy, I was high on all your lies
sobered up, now I'm disgusted at your disguise
You grip creators' necks, of course I can't plot your demise
But if I could, you'd suffer, wearing Palpatine's eyes
And I'm the black Skywalker, saber to your thighs
Aka your sponsors dip and leave you high and dry
You're made of money, coins plummet as you whine and cry 😢
Fair wages aren't in your vernacular, wonder why?
If bigger pockets are the only thing you see youre going blind
You'll never change your system, I dismiss you with a sigh
I'd run your business better, you are trash, I sanitize
And demonizing artists is something that wouldn't fly
For once you're speechless, oh my
Meet the scammers
*ominous yet soulful piano*
They dont stop
Whenever I see Spotify's CEO, I always think he's Mike Judge's evil twin.
I will FOREVER be mad at Google for killing Google Music, which was great, for RUclips Music, which is shit.
Spotify's constant updates have been more of a headache than a help, leading me to block them altogether. However, after giving RUclips Music a shot last week to see if it's a better option, I realized just how much Spotify, despite its flaws, outshines it. RUclips Music’s features felt slapped together and underwhelming. By the way, great content!
Ehh RUclips music does most of the same stuff, the UI will just be unfamiliar. For example "Add to Queue" in YTM puts that song at the end of the next like 50 autoplay songs; the function you want is labelled "Play Next". Spotify's algorithm edges out YTM but Spotify also has a shitton more user data for many folks. YTM pricing (family plan for 5 that includes RUclips premium is like $23) is better and most importantly, YTM has much much better sound quality. Just go listen to a favorite track side by side. Honestly surprised as an audio layperson and I can even tell the difference using shitty Bluetooth earbuds
I disagree. I used Spotify for several years until they randomly deleted my account. So I switched to RUclips. It feels worse at first because the algorithm doesn’t know anything about your music taste. However, once you use it for a bit I can say it’s way better than the pile of trash Spotify is.
Homepage shows songs I’ve been addicted to. Constantly being shown new music that I always enjoy. Even switching genres it does a good job identifying what I like pretty quickly. Shuffle actually works. Whereas Spotify is always the same songs on shuffle, constantly going through trash in my discover to maybe find 1 or 2 songs I like. I’ve been using RUclips music for 3 years and can confidently say it outclasses Spotify in almost every way for actual musical content and listening experience
I steal spotify with modded apps to find music then buy the albums i like on bandcamp or somewhere else. Fuck spotify
we really gotta start boycotting so many things goddamn, i remember when i first started using it and it only had 2 ads every like 5 songs, that's about the same as a youtube video or maybe a little bit less with the amount of ads youtube rolls out nowadays, but now they changed it to freaking 4 ads every like 2 or 3 songs, it genuinely sucks, spotify greedy as fuck, also half the advertisers on most services besides streaming services are at least questionable, and at most illegal, so why should we pay for your shitty ad free program when we can use our own for free?
Songwriters already get the shaft, this just makes it even worse. Get off Spotify while you can fr.
TFW Spotify is evil but every competitor is equally fucked.
Apple Music is a lot better in this regard. Apple make enough profit off of their hardware to not bleed artists dry in the name of profit like Spotify do, Apple Music is kinda their “side hustle” to their hardware and they pay artists significantly more
Sure, I ain’t happy with what they did with Dolby Atmos royalties, but that was a relatively small one-off thing by comparison
Or has an inferior service. I really tried - I switched to Tidal for 5 months, but ended up going back to the dark side. Just too many things being worse, and a ton of bugs for good measure.
Streaming has made music into more of a billboard ad for concerts and tours. THAT is where everyone makes their their money. Except songwriters.
Honestly I don't see how anything will change because big artists have tried to put their stuff as independent but it almost never pans out well because 1 it kills their exposure to a new audience and 2 except for an artist's die hards people are in fact not willing to spend money on music like they used to.
I'll bet my life savings (0.00000001% of) the shareholders in music labels, are also heavily invested in spotify.
the labels are just sitting by and watching this cause they own spotify.
when Spotify wanned to license the music to start with they needed the labels to sign of so they gave them shares so they could dubble dipp on the profits, both as owner of the platform but also by taking a cut from the artist as before
HERE WE GO AGAIN
Tidal hifi just went from $20 a month to $11 after dropping MQA.
I have not been impressed by Spotify in years. Actually lately me and the people around me even talk about how much we dislike it. I mainly dislike it because it fails daily to show me any sort of new music or anything interesting and it sort of forces me into a month long cycle of listening to the same songs over and over until i literally can't stomach them anymore. No matter what "daily mix* i choose, what song radio i start, or what i search up. And keep in mind that i use this platform for hours every single day.
TIDAL dropped prices - no more Spotify
CDs and bandcamp FLAC downloads never left, I've been having a great time with those options for what feels like forever at this point
Just to clarify. Joe Rogan is no longer full time on Spotify. After the 3 year contract ended he is now back on RUclips too.
Fantano types dont care about whats actually happening, they just wanna say "rogan bad conspiracy!"
ffs bro ANOTHER ONE?? wtf are they DJ Khaled??
You mention it might be time to switch, but what streaming service(s) would you actually recommend? There are a few out there and I'm unsure of which one I should switch to.
I'd rather people just pirate my music at this point.
Spotify is pirating your music!
I'm still not over Spotify canceling one of its best podcasts, Heavyweight. All the layoffs, creating a "new structure"....... this is bullshit.
Just be an author AND a songwriter! Problem solved.
I'm starting to lose hope. All sectors of entertainment are being screwed by streaming and company mismanagement
Spotify has been cooked for years.
let them cook
I miss as a music lover just buying cds of the artists I loved. Maybe trying some new stuff every once in awhile but at this point having access to so much music it overwhelms me and sometimes makes me extremely unhappy. Like I’m trying way too hard to listen to an extreme amount of music but also I step further and further away from being a fan of the music I do love. Miss those days of loading up music on my iPod nano and going for a walk.
To Pimp A Butterfly's lyrics are hitting harder every day
Here's the solution: go and buy a cd: go and buy a cd player or old walkman: listen to the CD
Bonus philosophy: ditch the headphones - you're not listening to music you're just drowing out the sound of traffic
tf is your problem with headphones??
Appification of the internet has left so many people up a creek technology wise. The kids I teach can't fathom how iPods or CDs worked. No alternative to streaming in sight. Cars don't have means to play physical media anymore. Computers don't have disc drives.
premiums price won’t go up i simply won’t say yes
Media services went full circle. We used to have TV and radio, and if you wanted freedom to watch whatever whenever you bought the CD/DVD. Then streaming came along, was fine for a few years but now movie streaming sites are putting ads even for paid members and music streaming is just radio playlists in our pockets. Me and aloooooot of people have recently went back to mostly physical media
As a deaf person when they got rid of captions for free users it really fucked me up. I only still have the paid version though my brother’s family plan
Edit to add: assuming that deaf/hard of hearing ppl don’t listen to music is exactly why Spotify is doing this. Keep media accessible for all!
Genuine curiosity as an artist who wants music to be accessible to everyone. If you don't mind me asking, how do you listen to music? Are you feeling the vibrations from a speaker like I've heard some do, or some other means?
@@sebarus8108 Deaf can also just mean can't hear freq under like 500hz but yeah there are deaf people to listen to music
Spotify hiding the new Macklemore song Hind’s Hall. So is Apple. They don’t want people to hear it. It’s still number 1 rap song on Apple.
cap i saw the numbers just now it’s not even top 100
bro COME ON DUDE.
Don't labels take most of the steaming revenue and artist only end up getting 10-25% of the revenue.
Aren't the labels not doing anything because they own a big portion of the Spotify shares ? So Spotify's profit is their profit and only the artist are actually get screwed over by this.
you can't even play a specific song from a specific artist now without premium, they just shuffle all of that artist's songs
Spotify is also trying to make this even worse, they're testing out adding courses as well for some reason so expect a future price hike and royalty drop when they properly roll that out for another feature nobody cares about
Post-beef deflation of the music industry
Newsom not being on there is so real
Labels are scared to death of not being on spotify, so there is only so much they can do for their artists rights
Spotify would die off if enough major labels left
The labels are major investors in Spotify lol, why would they do anything? Remember that the major labels also exploit their artists
hot take: I think the money should go to the artist and not the platform hosting all their shit. I could code Spotify in one second, nobody could ever replicate all the music on there
In one hand, artists can continue getting money from a song that they sometimes wouldn’t get when someone buys an album. But they pay so little it’s basically hard to even justify not buying the album physically.
In a fun note, I noticed about 4 years ago cd cases started cutting very tiny little things out to keep it at that $12.99 price and notice more albums than ever before the cd disc protrudes into the hinge area. Just thought that was interesting
I don’t understand how ‘ALL MUSIC’ isn’t a big enough market for them…
If Spotify announced this with the title "To Pimp a Writer's Life", you'd give them a 10
+2
Bro this really sucks man fuck Spotify I'm never using it again!!!!!!!!!!!!! is what i would say if im not just gonna turn around and continue to pay for premium
Y'know... it seems the time may come very soon where I'll have to resort back to the hastle of ripping shit off youtube again for them MP3s, followed by throwing all of the files into Groove Music to get the album covers and whatnot added for each individual album tracklist. Ah, the good ol days of "illegal downloads" (hey at least it was free)
if it was called my beautiful dark twisted streaming platform you'd give them a 10/10
I have been going through a cassette fever for some reason. I think because I never understood it as a kid younger. I go on Bandcamp every weekend and look for one new artist, and if they have a cassette I purchase it as well. There is alot of pressure for musicians in 2024 and it is very competitive. I think it does not have to be that way. Thank you for the video, liked and subbed!
Loving the One Eyed Snakes patch 👌
Couldn’t even tell you how much money my mom & I spent on song and albums on iTunes growing up. Thousands.
I really cannot express in writing how much I do not give a shit about spotify or its policies
Man, Spotify is so greedy I wouldn't be surprised if they put being able to read lyrics behind a paywall next
The book 'Our Biggest Fight' is a good read for anyone wondering how we can get out of this mess.
Surprised you havent reacted to Steve albini. What a loss that was
I mean… Why are you surprised that “music labels are sitting around and allowing this to happen”? Music labels are 100% in cahoots with music streaming platforms… Do you really think Spotify would change its royalty calculations w/o approval from the massive labels?(Sony, universal, Warner) Most of, or ALL of the major labels have equity stakes (% of ownership) in Spotify, which means they can pull the strings as if Spotify is their puppet… Makes Kayne seem a bit less crazy in the grand scheme of things… People should start waking tf up
Everyone knows labels suck, just because he can see one clear-as-day thing doesn't mean we should excuse him for being the Pied Piper of fascism.
@@ya9thelatinogringothe point isn't that "labels suck", it's that Spotify profit is their profit, even when it financially screws over the artists they're supposed to represent, a move which would normally be detrimental to the labels own success.
But forget all that. You're really calling Kanye West the "Pied Piper of fascism" just over his mental breakdown a couple years ago?
@@manwithnewname a mental breakdown hollywoood caused, people still sleep when 2024 has been unveiling lies and exposing
I record my brother and me jamming and when I listen to the recordings it feels good to not rely on some streaming service. We should all just go back to entertaining ourselves. Revert to monke hitting a drum with a bone.
Here to ask Austin if they could keep their caption blurbs running just a half sec longer plz ❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥
The reason labels are so hesitant to fight stuff like this is pretty apparent I think: Do you really want to be the people that made everyones Spotify subscription even more expensive?
I recently realised that I only listen to a few albums regularly and otherwise stick to the discovery weekly feature. In essence, I have a rather fixed library of music and listen to the radio otherwise…so I switched to buying these albums and songs I encounter instead of a Spotify subscription. In the long term I am definitely saving money, I own the music and more of my money goes to artists. Sort of win win win, but I realise not everyone consumes music like I do.
Why does every tech bro want their platform to become a internet 1.0 web portal
I remeber hearing that something like 50-70% (cant remember exactly it was referenced in his joe buddwn podcast) of pusha t's Daytona first week sales were physical, and only recently have i realized how massive that actually is especially for his profits
this is why i don't use streaming platforms at all. for one, much content is being "RENTED" out to the listener, not purcharsed. you purchase the SERVICE, not the music
Big labels don't care because 1. It affects the artist not them and 2. They're in on it
does anyone know any streaming services more ethical for artists? i have spotify but dont know where to look
That's it, im unsubscribing Spotify, only indie albums for me on Bandcamp
Yup
Chilling with my modded spotify apk
Lmao same
Damn, bro really took a photo of his monitor and used it as his thumbnail and its perfect