Nothing short of handing them cash in person is truly a guarantee. Really depressing how it’s turned out.
This is outdated and bad information. Most small artists lose money touring. Bigger artists might break even.
If you can buy merch, do that, if you can buy physically do that. Spotify is gonna pay pennies for thousands of streams, so nothing you do on spotify is going to benefit an artist. But “pirate and see live” is probably gonna result in a negative bank balance for artists.
Sharkwellington@lemmy.one 11 months ago
deranger@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Bandcamp is a decent platform… for now
thisisawayoflife@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Faircamp might be a good avenue in the future.
SatyrSack@lemmy.one 11 months ago
Has anything really happened since they were acquired by Epic last year?
alt_xa_23@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Epic sold it to a company called Songtradr, who shortly laid off a good chunk of the staff. They haven’t done too much so far, but it could easily go south from here.
lolcatnip@reddthat.com 11 months ago
That’s not a guarantee either unless you know how much they spent getting in a position for you to hand them cash.
essteeyou@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I think Taylor Swift just about broke even, mostly thanks to my wife and her friends.