Comment on ...So I Finally Quit Spotify
PrivateNoob@sopuli.xyz 5 months agoAs far as I recall. YT Music pays even less than Spotify does unfortunately.
here’s a TL;DR summary for what we’ve got:
- Spotify paid the artists $0,0032 per stream
- Apple Music got the average rate of $0,0056
- Google Play Music landed a $0,0055 payout rate
- Deezer fell slightly lower at $0.00436
From soundcharts.com/…/music-streaming-rates-payouts#s… which is admittedly a bit old.
I believe YouTube music premium streams actually pay more than Spotify but the cross between YouTube paying way less and YouTube music paying more causes some confusion.
According to the soundcharts link below, they pay about half of spotify's pay.
grabyourmotherskeys@lemmy.world 5 months ago
You cannot make a difference this way. Their music is a commodity they have signed agreements to sell. They probably (in the vast majority of instances) had almost no bargaining power in this and a lot of signed artists don’t make a penny from their work, at all.
If you really like an artist, contact them via their official channels and ask if you can send them money directly or donate to a charity they like.
PrivateNoob@sopuli.xyz 5 months ago
Yeah you’re right. Actually I was just thinking about this streaming space and perhaps switching away from Spotify, over to Tidal but probably it wouldn’t make a big difference to the respected artists I’m listening to.