Yes, multiple people have pointed this out already and I’ve agreed with them. However I work in the music industry and Spotify is definitely not paying by far the lowest. By sheer volume they’re paying most of the share a song is earning nowadays and even on a per play basis they are fairly similar to their competitors, maybe slightly lower.
We can make the argument that revenue on a per stream basis is much too low in general and I would agree, but then we also have to rethink the entire pricing model.
OK, true Pandora pays the least, but Spotify is down there.
Spotify pays 0.3¢ per stream.
Tidal pays 1.3¢ per stream, 400% more
Qobuz is around 4¢ per stream, 300% more. Some regions can apparently go down to as little as 1¢ per stream, still much more.
Hell, apple music pays over double what Spotify does at 0.8¢
Yes it pay around what shitty US companies pay per stream, but the whole point of this point is that it is a bad standard. PLUS, these other services don’t have the “shit on small artists” policies like Spotify.
Let’s take a small artist that has 10k streams on Spotify and qobuz:
on qobuz they earn more than 100 euros
on Spotify they earn 0 euros
and anything above their minimum, does not earn the total, but the total - the minimum
A small artist that has 20k streams on the same two, and assume the Spotify stream minimum is 10k (IIRC it is a bit higher)
on qobuz, they earn more than 200€
on spotify, they earn about 30€
Plus this isn’t even addressing the making of shitty AI music and injecting it in playlists to steal even more revenue from artists.
Yes, multiple people have pointed this out already and I’ve agreed with them. However I work in the music industry and Spotify is definitely not paying by far the lowest. By sheer volume they’re paying most of the share a song is earning nowadays and even on a per play basis they are fairly similar to their competitors, maybe slightly lower.
We can make the argument that revenue on a per stream basis is much too low in general and I would agree, but then we also have to rethink the entire pricing model.
OK, true Pandora pays the least, but Spotify is down there.
Spotify pays 0.3¢ per stream.
Tidal pays 1.3¢ per stream, 400% more
Qobuz is around 4¢ per stream, 300% more. Some regions can apparently go down to as little as 1¢ per stream, still much more.
Hell, apple music pays over double what Spotify does at 0.8¢
Yes it pay around what shitty US companies pay per stream, but the whole point of this point is that it is a bad standard. PLUS, these other services don’t have the “shit on small artists” policies like Spotify.
Let’s take a small artist that has 10k streams on Spotify and qobuz:
on qobuz they earn more than 100 euros
on Spotify they earn 0 euros
and anything above their minimum, does not earn the total, but the total - the minimum
A small artist that has 20k streams on the same two, and assume the Spotify stream minimum is 10k (IIRC it is a bit higher)
on qobuz, they earn more than 200€
on spotify, they earn about 30€
Plus this isn’t even addressing the making of shitty AI music and injecting it in playlists to steal even more revenue from artists.
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