Spotify: Starving Artists?
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Spotify: Starving Artists?
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Little known fact: only 3% of artists on Spotify make more than one thousand dollars. And the people who work on albums who aren’t top-billed artists, like backup singers and songwriters, make even less. In fact, most artists make fractions of a penny per stream.
So where does all that cash go?
Show Notes
- Read Blake Morgan’s article about his meeting with Spotify execs: Spotify’s Fatal Flaw Exposed: How My Closed-Door Meeting with Execs Ended in a Shouting Match
- Learn more about Kaydence and her impactful work with the 100 Percenters here.
- David Turner writes a weekly blog called Penny Fractions ‘as a way to think through various record industry topics’.
This episode uses the following tracks from FMA under a Creative Commons Attribution License: "What Dreams Become" by Audiobinger, "Moonlove Funk" by Cullah, "Ugly Truth" by HoliznaCC0, "Leave The Country (Instrumental)" by Anthem of Rain.
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