I pay about that already (~$14 a month), but for Napster, which afaik gives the biggest cut of any streaming service to artists. They also have really good custom playlist management, I never get intrusive popups or emails, and premium means no ads, even with hours of listening. I switched after the Joe Rogan thing happened with Spotify and never looked back honestly.

Faster than inflation

Spotify pays very little to artists, And the sound quality is not high.

I will be switching to Tidal very soon, as it offers HiFi and it pays more to artists. I believe it pays much more.

Spotify has been greedy and cheap in my most humble opinion!

It's to support all those artists right? Right?

SpotX works quite well.

I get Apple Music for “free” as part of my Verizon plan, so I’ll keep using it.

(Yes I know it’s not really free but worked into the cost of my plan, but I don’t pay a separate streaming music service, so there’s that.)

It's funny: I haven't paid for any streaming/cable/media service in 10+ years; instead choosing to sail the seas, hord media, and host my own streaming service using tools like Emby/Plex/Jellyfin.

Spotify was the one and only service I had been considering, mainly because managing music files is still a PITA; but I keep running into articles like this one and renewing my will to fly the Jolly Rodger.