What's the gatekeeping? The biggest gatekeeping is Spotify's editorial system. No one is judging you on your music tastes, so you can stop with the projection and calling people 'snobs'. The problem is with artists not getting a fair shot. I can tell you from first hand experience that over 95% of artists that have >100k streams (which is nothing) know someone connected to Spotify -- the social dynamics of which heavily skew towards rich, trust fund kids.
It's great that you can find an artist that has <3k plays that sings in an incredibly local dialect. That artist is probably making $10 over the entire year. I don't think that's a fair deal for artists. Spotify is the single biggest gatekeeper for artists finding meaningful success. That is a fact.
It's great that you can find an artist that has <3k plays that sings in an incredibly local dialect. That artist is probably making $10 over the entire year. I don't think that's a fair deal for artists. Spotify is the single biggest gatekeeper for artists finding meaningful success. That is a fact.