I think the point is more general about profiting from “renting” their music rather than from their labor. The fact that Spotify gives them peanuts make their position even more miserable.
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SnoringEarthworm@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Simone reminds me of the class perspective: musicians here behave like atomized small owners, caught in their enterprecarity, who (legitimately) ask for some defense of their property rights, attacked both by hackers and by the big monopolists of platforms and AI. Because from these property rights, in this case IP, comes a rent, and from this rent, independent artists and label owners try to make a living. Again, right or wrong, this is what’s happening.
I remember reading somewhere that independent artists make basically no money from Spotify.
Is that still true, or have creators found a way to claw back value from the platform, and that’s why they’re defending it?
chobeat@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
who (legitimately) ask for some defense of their property rights, attacked both by hackers and by the big monopolists of platforms and AI
This does not sound like they’re defending Spotify.
Fandangalo@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Spotify performs as one of the worst when it comes to creator royalties and appropriate pay.
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It’s not THE worst, and these numbers have shifted since 2022. The general sentiment (that Spotify stiffs artists) is still shared by the general community.
verdi@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
This plot is complete BS, Deezer pays double than spotify.
Waryle@jlai.lu 3 weeks ago
And one of the highest payers, Qobuz, is missing
kboy101222@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
I’m always surprised that Deezer is still around. Who on earth is still using it?
MisterMoo@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I use Deezer. After Spotify started subsidizing Rogan, it was the only service that had a reasonably Spotify-like UI. Apple Music was absolutely horrible, especially for someone who already has a local library.
Kirca@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I used Deezer up until last month, seemed fine to me
PrivateNoob@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
My friends switched from Spotify to Tidal, but due to lack of japanese songs + vocaloid, we have hopped on Deezer instead.
LemmyEntertainYou@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
I liked Deezer until it’s redesign a few years ago. Now the design language is so ugly I could never consider paying for it. Their biggest flaw for me though is that some albums are just randomly not available in lossless and the only alternative is mp3 which I refuse to use in 2025. Some lossy codecs are great so why do Deezer and Qobuz still mess around with mp3?
cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
This graph is weird. Soundcloud looks like it pays more according to it, but it needs to swap positions with Spotify.
Tim_Bisley@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
What’s up with soundlcouds position in that chart?
HyperfocusSurfer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Add it to the fact that, quoting from the aa’s blogpost,
The vast majority of the artists are to be “stiffed” of like $3 or less per track during the nearest eternity iff every single one of their listeners is to download the archive and only listen to locally saved copies. Which, given spotify tries to do it themselves by recommending (and, likely, creating) ai slop, tells us more about their predatory practices than of anything else