Spotify's CEO responds to Taylor Swift pulling her album, apparently $6 million a year isn't enough
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[QUOTE=StrawberryClock;46477862]How is Spotify responsible for how the money is distributed once they pay the publisher? It's not their purview, they just need the rights to the songs.[/QUOTE]
Her other earnings go through her publisher as well, I'm not sure why that's relevant.
[QUOTE=itisjuly;46479806]Spotify could greatly benefit both their service and artists if they added optional buy song/album feature. If you buy song you get drm free mp3 for download/stream even if you're a free user. Sounds like a blast to me. Spotify should expand beyond simply streaming service.[/QUOTE]
I remember they had that function a while back. I don't even remember when they removed it, never tried it. Probably leagal issues as usual.
They do have a function that allows artists to have commercials for merch on their artist page for free. They are trying to spread out
[QUOTE=catbarf;46479916]If an artist as well-known and popular as Taylor Swift makes only $500,000 from one of the largest streaming services in the world, what on earth are more minor artists earning? It'd be an achievement to be even a hundredth as popular as Swift, and yet that'd be just $5k/yr.
Not saying Swift is necessarily in the right here, but that's really not a lot of money considering how much revenue her work brings in.[/QUOTE]
People have pointed out that her publishers are probably taking a large sum of that money for themselves and all their "hard work" of promoting her to Spotify and maybe paying for a Spotify ad here and there.
Smaller artists won't make anywhere near as much still, but they'd hopefully get most of what they did make directly rather than losing a large bit to suits.
[QUOTE=Elecbullet;46477074]You should learn not to post things like this; all you achieve, really, is announcing to the world that you never get outside in the least.[/QUOTE]
Or I don't subscribe to the cult of personality based around celebrity, and hold an openly professed disgust towards the people who do.
Sorry I don't jerk off with bated breath to E! Entertainment. I have better things to care about. Like the ESA landing a tin can launched 10 years ago on a comet.
This is the closest I come to listening to pop music. [url]http://thirdrockradio.rfcmedia.com/[/url]
[QUOTE=catbarf;46479916]If an artist as well-known and popular as Taylor Swift makes only $500,000 from one of the largest streaming services in the world, what on earth are more minor artists earning? It'd be an achievement to be even a hundredth as popular as Swift, and yet that'd be just $5k/yr.
Not saying Swift is necessarily in the right here, but that's really not a lot of money considering how much revenue her work brings in.[/QUOTE]
Spotify really isn't meant as your only source of income if you're a musician. It is a side thing that gives you some money, discourages people from pirating your stuff and gives you some more cash for you doing nothing at all. And in addition many small bands get discovered on spotify, which gives them more popularity and profit through methods I mentioned lower.
If you're not a bigtime hit artist, sell your albums, merchandise and do live concerts. Just like bigtime artists. I'd rather people listen to my stuff on spotify and I get some pocket change than people to just pirate my stuff and give me nothing at all.
Spotify is fairly generous compared to radio or youtube. Spotify is not be all end all solution, it's just one more way to get some cash for little effort and to make your fans happy since they can now stream your music on a legit service.
[QUOTE=Grimhound;46481186]Or I don't subscribe to the cult of personality based around celebrity, and hold an openly professed disgust towards the people who do.
Sorry I don't jerk off with bated breath to E! Entertainment. I have better things to care about. Like NASA landing a tin can launched 10 years ago on a comet.
This is the closest I come to listening to pop music. [URL]http://thirdrockradio.rfcmedia.com/[/URL][/QUOTE]
Yes, everyone who has any idea who Taylor Swift is "subscribes to the cult of personality based around celebrity" and "jerk off with bated breath to E! Entertainment." That's totally true.
And even for the people who supposedly do so, that totally excludes their possibility of caring about other things.
Oh and just so you know, NASA had literally nothing to do with the comet landing.
[QUOTE=shanzo;46470926]I never expected to start using Spotify, nevertheless pay for Premium. But here I am, having paid for Premium happily for 1,5 years.
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Same, it is now pretty much my only source of music. As a result I think I have "paid" (via spotify) for music that I would not have even considered paying for in the past.
[QUOTE=LarparNar;46481395]Yes, everyone who has any idea who Taylor Swift is "subscribes to the cult of personality based around celebrity" and "jerk off with bated breath to E! Entertainment." That's totally true.
And even for the people who supposedly do so, that totally excludes their possibility of caring about other things.
Oh and just so you know, NASA had literally nothing to do with the comet landing.[/QUOTE]
I knew she was a singer of some description, but that's about it. Everyone seems to be making a BFD about her, and I just don't get it.
And shit. Congrats to the ESA, then.
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Oh and just so you know, NASA had literally nothing to do with the comet landing.[/QUOTE]
Shh, don't ruin the illusion that only Americans can do anything great.
[QUOTE=Jsm;46481469]Shh, don't ruin the illusion that only Americans can do anything great.[/QUOTE]
There's no such belief held. It was simply me flubbing which organization was involved. This goes beyond nations. What the people involved managed to do advances all of humanity.
[QUOTE=Pepsi-cola;46472444]Coming from a founding member of Napster.[/QUOTE]
Daniel Ek =/= Sean Parker
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