I can't seem to find in the article a specific mention of how much an artist gets per time his/her song is listened to. I mean, I know the music industry is great at ripping off artists, but if your song isn't being listened to a lot, surely it makes sense that you don't get paid much either?
Whilst you may get significantly less per play than you would from an individual sale, Spotify is a social tool. It both promotes artists and allows the discovery of new ones which would encourage people to go out and buy the physical albums.
At the end of the day, you restrict people from accessing your work because you want more profit then they'll be turned to piracy and you'll get nothing.
Thom Yorke is actually a big fan of piracy. If people like his music enough, they'll go to a gig and buy some merch. They'd much rather get that than the two cents that the record label gives them.
[QUOTE=Gishank;41466035]Whilst you may get significantly less per play than you would from an individual sale, Spotify is a social tool. It both promotes artists and allows the discovery of new ones which would encourage people to go out and buy the physical albums.
At the end of the day, you restrict people from accessing your work because you want more profit then they'll be turned to piracy and you'll get nothing.[/QUOTE]
It's a really fine line, and no answer is really obvious sadly.
nobody is factoring inn the people that would never pay for an album but uses spotify 24/7
Like me, before spotify, i never paid for music. But now it either on spotify or i dont listen to it. (with some exceptions)
[QUOTE=Lazore;41466365]nobody is factoring inn the people that would never pay for an album but uses spotify 24/7
Like me, before spotify, i never paid for music. But now it either on spotify or i dont listen to it. (with some exceptions)[/QUOTE]
This is actually why Spotify is a problem: Because there are people who [i]only[/i] use Spotify to listen to music. For these users, it seems as though there's rarely any incentive to [i]buy[/i] albums, when you can stream whatever you want without limitations for $10 a month. It sounds great for the user, but it is absolutely abysmal for the artist.
If Spotify were to implement limitations on the number of times users could listen to a song before having to purchase it, it'd be an entirely different story.
The biggest issue here (I believe) is the fact Spotify requires you to have some form of record label contract when putting your music there. The record labels then takes a massive cut from the money they get per play. I know what Spotify pays is small, but it becomes even smaller after the record labels have taken their cut. It's the same on iTunes, Apple takes a cut then the record label takes a bigger cut. The artist gets very little.
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