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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.

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FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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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