Comment on Spotify doesn't make profit from music streaming, despite having over 400M monthly active users, because it pays two-thirds of all its revenue to the rights holders.

• wolfshadowheart@slrpnk.net ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  They just changed the rules so that if smaller artists don’t get a certain number of plays they don’t even get a payout.

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  • GenEcon@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    With less than 1000 streams per year.

    This is solely to kick out the AI generated music, which is already taking a significant share of the payout from the musicians.

    This change is not against smaller artists, but for them.

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    • t0fr@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I kind of call bullshit on that take.

      There’s definitely AI generated music that can surpass 1000 streams per year and many real bands that cannot.

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      • lolcatnip@reddthat.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Less than 1000 streams is like a band being unable to fill up a very 100-person venue for a 10-song set once in a year (for the kind of band that plays live gigs). Opening acts for obscure bands play more than that. If you’re that unpopular, you’re hardly a band at all.

        They didn’t say all AI generated music gets less than 1000 streams; they implied most of it does.

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    • wolfshadowheart@slrpnk.net ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I thought it was 2,000?

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