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.

• Mango@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  If I can personally promote a subreddit to 8.5 million subscribers with no talent of my own, anyone who can make decent music can handle their own shit.

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  • rigatti@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Yes, promoting a subreddit and promoting yourself as an artist are the same thing.

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    • Mango@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I didn’t even have to sing.

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• Mango@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Yo. I can be a record label. Come hang out in my apartment while I pay the bills and BAM! I get all the royalties!

  Sounds like stealing with extra steps. Actually it sounds like just being rewarded for having money to begin with.

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  • clgoh@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Actually it sounds like just being rewarded for having money to begin with.

    That’s most of the economy.

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