Comment on Spotify will end service in Uruguay due to bill requiring fair pay for artists
CheeseNoodle@lemmy.world 10 months agoiirc spotify has some weird revenue sharing thing where that 70% is split between all artists in a very non-linear way. You don’t get money based on how many of your songs get sold you get a slice of the total pie based on some weird formula. The result is that top artists get paid for more than their own songs sales and everyone elses gets less than their own songs sales to provide that extra cut to the top performers.
raptir@lemdro.id 10 months ago
That’s not just Spotify though. Everyone uses a similar algorithm. Deezer and Tidal have talked about implementing user-centric payments but have not done so.
Corgana@startrek.website 10 months ago
IRC Tidal gives 10% of the subscription to the most listened-to artist. Not a lot, exactly but still miles ahead of Spotify who gives functionally zero.
raptir@lemdro.id 10 months ago
That was part of their “direct artist payouts” that they discontinued earlier this year.
Corgana@startrek.website 10 months ago
Ah thanks for clarifying. What a bummer!