Comment on YSK: Deezer, the music streaming service, is owned by a company whose Founder and CEO is a Russian Oligarch with connections to the Kremlin and donates to the American Republican party.

• FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I’ve already addressed this. They don’t get fractions of fractions of a penny.

  We know this because Weird Al used his year-end video to make the world aware that, in return for his tens of millions of streams, he got around $80.00 from Spotify.

  The artists aren’t losing anything meaningful when rip songs off Youtube, but the CEO is for sure.

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  • EarlGrey@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    If you’re talking about that video where he talked about getting $12 for 80 million streams…he was very clearly taking the piss.

    He made closer to $200k, which is still pretty low (hence, the joke) and doesn’t account for his labels cut.

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  • vga@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    We know this because Weird Al used his year-end video to make the world aware that, in return for his tens of millions of streams, he got around $80.00 from Spotify for a whole year.

    How does that work? 10 million streams pays more than $20k in royalties.

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