

To recap what’s loud and clear: last year 13,400 rights holders grossed $50k or more from Spotify, worldwide (that’s equivalent to 5,000 downloads at $9.99). “Meanwhile Spotify earned billions for itself, its stockholders, and the three remaining major labels.”

“To recap what’s loud and clear: last year 13,400 rights holders grossed $50k or more from Spotify, worldwide (that’s equivalent to 5,000 downloads at $9.99),” former Galaxie 500 member Damon Krukowski said. Yep it’s pretty “loud and Clear where the money goes” & it ain’t the Fuckin artists… via 🏴☠️ Geoff Barrow 🏴☠️ March 19, 2021

“Yep it’s pretty “loud and Clear where the money goes” & it ain’t the Fuckin artists…” Portishead and Beak’s Geoff Barrow added. “the real problem is that cannot actually operate at profit by paying artists fairly and they’re too cucked to just admit what we all know – they’re robbing us.” The real problem is that cannot actually operate at profit by paying artists fairly and they're too cucked to just admit what we all know – they're robbing us “musicians demanded one penny per stream from and in return they made some convoluted websited called “loud and clear” to try to gaslight musicians into thinking it’s somehow their fault,” Zola Jesus tweeted. However, some artists don’t think the new pay transparency site offers the answers they have been calling for from Spotify. When we make our programming better, more artists can fit in and have a chance to grow an audience.” When we grow our revenues, artists’ revenues grow. “We’re constantly testing to see what is the revenue-maximising price for market because if we can find the revenue-maximising price, that’s best for Spotify and it’s best for all artists.
