• catarina@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Spotify pays very very little to artists per stream. Tidal is a better streaming platform to send money their way.

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      1 year ago

      Tidal doesn’t pay that much better; no streaming services do.

      If payouts to artists matter to you then buy their music outright from platforms like Bandcamp and Qobuz rather than stream their music for peanuts.

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        1 year ago

        Well, spotify may online take 30% but they funnel.most of the money to their owners, the big record companies.

        And 30% is not like the 30% steam takes. If you stream only my songs (yes, I’m on spotify) for a whole months, maybe every day 10 songs that makes 300 streams a month, each for 0.2¢. All in all 60¢. The remaining 6.40$ of the 70% of 10$ go to the most streamed artists you never heard…and these artist only get small cuts from theur labels.

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      1 year ago

      You can also buy any merch of theirs and that will make them more than lifetime streaming of all the services combined.

      • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works
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        1 year ago

        Yeah, this is my go-to for all forms of content creator. If I really like a band, I’ll see them in concert and/or buy random merch. If I really like a YT creator, I’ll buy their merch or send money directly with Patreon or whatever they use. If I really like a Twitch streamer, I’ll send money to them directly.