| ▲ | red-iron-pine 5 hours ago |
| spotify still pays artists. it's just a shitty deal. most big ai will never compensate anyone |
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| ▲ | happymellon 5 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| Is it really much different to how much artists got from radio? Most artists never got radio money because it went into a label slush fund and was spent retaining the tent pole artists. |
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| ▲ | mukbangpervert 4 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | The overall economics are wildly different. Radio didn't pay much, but it was promotion for the album. Spotify doesn't pay much, and it _replaces_ the album. | |
| ▲ | jasonlotito 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | The big difference was radio wasn't on-demand. You couldn't just listen to a complete album. If you wanted to listen to your favorite artist, you couldn't do that on the radio without listening to a lot of other stuff. | | |
| ▲ | happymellon 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | Most artists didn't make money from album sales. They received some money up front in a contract to record the album, and the label make the money from sales. There is a reason the bands toured and sold teeshirts. |
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| ▲ | afavour 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| For a lot of artists they’re paid a rounding error. The core question is whether they’re paid enough to make a living from and the answer is no. |
