We always judge others based on ourselves, so I wish you luck in your perspective.

Simple fact is Spottily is NOT a platform to profit directly from, it's for some that want access to hundreds of millions of music fans to grow their business. You can skip Spotify and just use another platform... to each their own choices.

 

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Spotify costs €12.99 per month, and you can tell by the 99-per-month price that the marketing strategies are strong.
Let's calculate €13 per month, which is €156 per year. In 10 years, it's €1,560.

9 best Spotify alternatives: Deezer, Apple Music , Amazon Music, YouTube, Music Tidal, SoundCloud, Qobuz, Bandcamp, Last.Fm

 

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I received exactly 1.84€ for a few thousand streams on some tracks from 2023-2024...

enough for a coke...

 

Never used spotify. I will never use this piece oh shit.

 

I can't imagine how frustrating it must be for musicians who put all their free time and money into it and get hardly anything in return

 

I buy at bandcamp whenever I can. But there are a lot of artists that are not on there and have not released physical media. These are streaming only. And I hate that. I don't need to have the CD. But I want something that is not dependant on my Internet connection.

 

Der Verschwörungserzähler Jens Berger hat herausgefunden, dass es im Kapitalismus subjektive Ungerechtigkeiten gibt? Congratulations.

i really dont understand why people always think composers and publishers would be forced to use streaming services - instead of releasing media or running their own streaming services.

they all did this by free will and knew the conditions before. if nobody would upload to spotify, they would not even exist.

 

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"The many, many musicians who, despite the prevailing poor conditions and regulations, enthusiastically record music and then release it on Spotify, even though they know how difficult it is to generate revenue from it, are brave."

Not brave, just desperate and hoping for a lottery ticket and/or people to tell them how special their music and how talented they are so their self-worth can be propped up for five minutes.

Everyone's looking for validation and their five minutes of viral fame.

 

there was never any more to be made unless you were famous. *or you played lame covers in a wedding band*

 

The best live bands are those who perform occasionally but have a real job in the business world. That way, you have money and fun.
Where I live, there are many bands that play in bars or at city festivals, but they all have regular jobs. There are also musicians who work in music stores—very competent people. There are also musicians who work in stage construction or in the catering industry.

 

Thanks but no thanks! I don't judge anyone on anything but their actions and hard indisputable facts.

This fairy tale again. Saying it over and over again wont make it true. The facts tell us, it is ALL about the money and there is an astronomical amount of it being siphoned from the music industry like never before seen in history. It's worse than a "global" sweatshop labor syndicate for fuck sake. But I suppose you also believe the $40,000,000,000.00 (billion) in cash pocketed by Ek and Lorentzon alone, that was stolen from artists and record labels, is Monopoly money too, right?

Believe whatever you want, but ignoring the truth wont change the facts. The statistics blatantly show us that only the extreme minority of top 1% manufactured major label artist, fucking noncreative you scratch my back, I'll scratch yours friends of Ek podcasters being paid billions of dollars annually and lets not forget the unicorn-rare sympathy participant award posterchild lottery winners are "growing their businesses and building fan bases" from Spotify. But still, despite all of this factual evidence proving otherwise, you emphatically insist "Spottily is NOT a platform to profit directly from"


Choices? Yes, and my choice is not to support a music industry destroying parasitic swindling scamming scumbag and mass murderer. But you do you, continue living in la-la land and enjoy reaping what you've sowed!

Just wow

 

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