Data so old it’s talking about Google music which isn’t even called that anymore. Amazing.
According to Route Note, which appears to offer a middle-man service for artists, their ranking, as of November 2023, is:
- Napster
- Tidal
- Apple
- YouTube Music
- Deezer
- YouTube (official content)
- Amazon
- Spotify
- Pandora
- YouTube (ContentID)
Has anyone used Tidal or Napster? How is the music selection there vs Spotify?
I tried to switch to Tidal, but I found their app not as good, their integration with Sonos lacking, and no parental controls, which is important to me. Music selection was pretty good. A lot of niche stuff isn’t there, sadly. For example I sometimes listen to college acapella groups, and there just isn’t as much there. All the popular music is there though.
On average artists on Spotify receive around $0.003 per one stream… In order to make $1, you need about 334 streams.
I knew it was bad, but I didn’t realize it was that bad. Anyone know what the best way to buy music is that benefits the artist the most? I know concerts are the most profitable, but I can’t easily go to concerts these days because I have young kids.
Also, is this net of label fees, or is the artists share even smaller? I assume labels tend to take about half as mentioned earlier in the article.
Technically you can stream the music you purchased on Bandcamp from their site, would love some statistics how it compares since probably only few people use it and artists also get a very high percentage of the album price (50%?). Now that I think about it, doesn’t Bandcamp also have samplers or radios or something?
I don’t see why artists would receive money for music you purchased on bandcamp, unless I’m misunderstanding what you’re saying. It isn’t a streaming service. The only money exchanged is the money to purchase the album. It’s not monetized otherwise.
You might be able to stream some stuff you haven’t purchased, but artists have full control over what you can listen to and what you can’t, so those are treated more as a preview of the album rather than a “stream” in the Spotify sense.
TIL Xbox Music is a thing
This is really old.
Xbox music became Groove Music which was retired Dec 31st 2017.
Though I guess that was just the subscription offering?
Sounds like any licenses you held continue on which I guess is nice. Does that mean any Zune licenses you have are now Xbox / Groove?