Comment on Spotify will end service in Uruguay due to bill requiring fair pay for artists
raptir@lemdro.id 10 months agoThat’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!
raptir@lemdro.id 10 months ago
Yeah, it’s really unfortunate. Their argument was that it took too many resources to implement for the little it was giving to the artists. They replaced it with “Tidal Rising” but it really doesn’t fix the problem. When I look up the artists featured on RISING and I see that they have 1 million+ Spotify listeners while the average band I listen to is closer to 50k with some under 100 listeners I feel like they missed the mark.
I love Tidal + Plex as a solution for supplementing my music library so I’m not going to cancel it, but I try to buy an album per month from a band I listen to in addition to my subscription to tidal.