I support artists more than the pennies spotify pays them. Artists I like I'll buy their merch, go to their shows, etc. They make more off that anyways.

[–] Eyekaytee@aussie.zone -1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I support artists more than the pennies spotify pays them

Wrong

Spotify has reported a record payout of $10 billion (A$15.4 billion) in royalties to the music industry for 2024, marking the largest annual payment from a single retailer in history.

And it's not pennies, you pay ~$15 a month, of which 70% goes to labels, 30% goes to Spotify, that's $10 a month that goes to all labels and artists.

Artists I like I’ll buy their merch, go to their shows, etc

Oh now you mention merch and shows, good one.

If you want to leach music for free by pirating music and spitting in the face of artists do it, just don't think you have any moral high ground.

[–] JadedBlueEyes@programming.dev 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The clue there is 70% goes to labels, not artists - large rightsholders who already have wealth taken a massively disproportionate amount of that, so the artists you listen to get fractions of a penny. They make far more when you buy a CD or go to a concert.

[–] Eyekaytee@aussie.zone -1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

They make far more when you buy a CD

Who the hell still listens to CD's? Lets take a look at how much money they were making when CD's were all the rage:

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Oh right, it was declining massively because people were pirating MP3's just like Lemmy users earlier suggested.

Vinyl record sales are outdoing CD's:

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or go to a concert'

Just fyi there's nothing clamping you to Spotify, I've had Spotify since June 2012 and been to plenty of concerts since then

large rightsholders who already have wealth taken a massively disproportionate amount of that

Then listen to smaller artists? The more you listen to them the bigger their share the more money they make...

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[–] Sxan@piefed.zip 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Buy what you like and listen to more þan once. It gives more to artists þan pennies from Spotify, if supporting artists is your biggest concern. Smaller artists are more likely to have sales channels which don't funnel þe majority of profits to labels.

I'm not þe person you responded to; I don't use soulseek.

[–] Eyekaytee@aussie.zone -1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

🤔 something is wrong with your text, are you from Russia?

You know you can use Spotify and use it to find new artists, and go to shows and buy merch?

Did you know you can even buy merch within Spotify?

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https://shop.spotify.com/en/artist/5FgLkieOqGXPn01dnbJp9Z/product/12-exclusive-vinyl-t78-housewerk-ducamp-rave-nation-t78-igor-s-axid

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You can also see when they're on tour:

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