Boycott Spotify

[LyingDalai]

I totally agree with the title of this thread.

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Spotify links First, and mainly, one can’t use a Spotify link without being registered. Besides, Spotify is not fair to artists. Spotify CEO Daniel Ek even exposed some controversial opinion on how artists should make music, and stated that “some artists that used to do well in the past may not do well in this future landscape, where you can’t record music once every three to four years and think that’s going to be enough”. Which, IMO, is both bloody insulting to musicians. And music as an a…

I enjoyed Benn Jordan’s insight/personal experience on this.

Spotify will fail

[Why Spotify Will Ultimately Fail] Some very good points

But also

Spotify: No more royalties < 1000 plays p/y

I’ve checked the small, mostly non-profit venues in my city where I usually go to concerts again. You’re right, they’re usually embedding Youtube videos and not Spotify. I don’t know if Google is that much better than Spotify. And I can’t listen to that on the go. So I’m usually looking up these artists on Spotify, download an album and listen to it in a trip or while cleaning, to see if I wanna go to the concert. If I liked the show, I will buy some merch and maybe an LP at the show and subscr…

Spotify is Apparently Creating Fake Artists

You beat me to it. But I want to say it like this: This is music by people who don’t care about musicians, for people who don’t care about music. From a creative viewpoint, it’s fine, I think. However, it’s still problematic for career musicians, in at least two ways: Spotify doesn’t pay per play in a precise manner. They pay more like an old collection agency. They distribute the money they have made available for payout such that if your songs haven’t hit some threshold, you wont actuall…

Now this new insulting comment by Elk.

⇒ Boycott Spotify