I feel kind of bad for him that he wasnt backed up by his peers. You’ve got musicians and small labels in-fighting over the tiny amount of money spotify pay that they wont challenge the site for fear of their income being pulled. Spotify is evil for music. When they side with conspiracy theorists who have no evidence it sends another message - they’re income is worth more than what you all need, and that includes your personal safety.
Spotify is not alone. This started with Youtube/Google. They made changes some 10 or more years ago where algorithms were put in place that selected outrageousness over accuracy. This has allowed Rogan and others to make money off the adrevs, the sponsorships and the memberships. Their reach has sprawled into not just those two sites, but social media, TV and radio, magazines and news articles… its more religion than truth.
My Plex Server doesn’t host any “disinformation podcasts” and is primarily full of music I bought the physical media for and ripped myself, thus ensuring that the recording artist was paid more that $0.0001 per song.
Buy physical media, buy the tracks directly from the artists, or just pirate the shit and donate to their favorite charity or something. Using Spotify is just about as bad as piracy.
Tidal doesn’t host podcasts and has great quality. Also, sell high quality digital tracks on your own site or through bandcamp, people will buy them.
“I cannot leave all those services because I really like all the money my music would have no outlet to music lovers at all”
Considering how little spotify pays out per play, it’s not really about the money.
I mean, it is Neil Young. We’re not talking some mumblecore rapper from Minnesota. He’s going to put up some big numbers. All those 0.01$ add up.
Eh.
Stephen Stills is one of the other major members of Young’s supergroup, Crosby Stills Nash & Young, and Stephen Stills currently is listed as having 286,696 monthly listeners on Spotify.
Gola Gianni is a random rapper that I have never heard of before searching the word “mumblecore” on Spotify just 5 minutes ago, and he has 328,039 monthly listeners listed on Spotify.
I think you’re both severely overestimating how many people are actually listening to a lot of these “classic” artists and also severely underestimating how popular random flash-in-the-pan artists are on Spotify.
edit: I didn’t specifically use Young’s monthly listeners right now because I suspect the news-worthy nature of his absence and then eventual return likely has temporarily inflated his numbers with the additional attention on him
2nd edit: I kept being curious so I kept looking at numbers for other “big name” bands… I find it almost unbelievable that there is still apparently over 22 million people listening to Aerosmith monthly. I don’t hate Aerosmith, but I’m not sure I could even sit through a whole album of theirs, so that 22 mil is breaking my brain.
That’s embarrassing
