On: Spotify and Google Announce User Choice Billing

[Coolerbythelake]

Let me tell you, as a musician and artist, the miniscule portion provided to the artists who supply the content is a travesty and a crime. This new partnership only serves to add more hands in the pie and squeeze out any hope of increases for the content creators. Every time you click on Spotify you are fueling the beast. I make more money selling one vinyl record at one live gig than I will make on Spotify for months. All of this is great news except for the little guys!!!

[Ntrails → Coolerbythelake]

Spotify seems designed to over-reward the high volume artists at the expense of the little guy assuming I understand their model correctly.

Current:

     totalMoney x (totalListenTimeForArtist/totalListenTime)

imo the sensible system looks like:

     PerUserMoney x (PerUserListenTimeForArtist/TotalUserListenTime)

ie distribute each users subscription (minus fees) across the artists they list to so they don't just get dominated by big/popular music on repeat

[Melatonic → Coolerbythelake]

I subscribe to Spotify and I agree it is a travesty - hopefully some day we get a platform that is as easy to use and is not so unfriendly to artists.