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After announcing increased prices, Spotify to Pay Songwriters About $150 Million Less Next Year (www.billboard.com)
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When Bloomberg reported that Spotify would be upping the cost of its premium subscription from $9.99 to $10.99, and including 15 hours of audiobooks per month in the U.S., the change sounded like a win for songwriters and publishers. Higher subscription prices typically equate to a bump in U.S. mechanical royalties — but not this time.

By adding audiobooks into Spotify’s premium tier, the streaming service now claims it qualifies to pay a discounted “bundle” rate to songwriters for premium streams, given Spotify now has to pay licensing for both books and music from the same price tag — which will only be a dollar higher than when music was the only premium offering. Additionally, Spotify will reclassify its duo and family subscription plans as bundles as well.

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[-] IchNichtenLichten@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago

you suggest they get $0?

They make more from what I suggested than they do from Spotify.

[-] jumjummy@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Of course they do, but those suggested options are the same for Spotify users too. I’m not seeing the connection here unless you’re saying Spotify users are less likely to buy merch or tickets. Pirate what you want, but trying to spin the argument this way is just disingenuous.

Edit: and to add to this, I would argue that platforms like Spotify and other subscription models are key ways for new people to be introduced to a bad. (Short of having your song blow up on something like Tik Tok of course)

[-] IchNichtenLichten@lemmy.world -1 points 11 months ago

Pirate what you want, but trying to spin the argument this way is just disingenuous.

I'm not following you. Spotify is notorious for paying out very little to artists, so therefore they don't deserve my business, fuck 'em.

Instead I like to support the artists directly.

As to your second point, I've never had a problem discovering new music.

[-] jumjummy@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

My point is people saying “Spotify doesn’t pay artists enough so just pirate everything” is disingenuous. Nothing about paying for a platform (Spotify, TIDAL, Apple, YouTube, etc.) precludes you from supporting artists through other means as well.

The second point didn’t imply that this is the o ly way to discover music, but it absolutely is an avenue where many people discover new artists.

[-] IchNichtenLichten@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

I don’t think you know what disingenuous means.

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