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[-] kaffiene@lemmy.world 8 points 6 hours ago

Spotify is a fucking racket

[-] MeaanBeaan@lemmy.world 30 points 11 hours ago

The article contradicts the heck out of itself.

Says billboard estimates she earns roughly $4k a day from Spotify streams. Then they speculate she makes roughly 8k a month from OnlyFans.

That would be like $120k a month from Spotify and $8k a month from OnlyFans.

That is FAR from more money from OnlyFans. Even if those numbers are hugely off I don't see how the discrepancy would be THAT large.

[-] Starbuncle@lemmy.ca 18 points 7 hours ago

That also happens to be exactly the kind of math error AI is notorious for making. I bet the article was written by AI and likely not even proofread by a human.

[-] doktormerlin@feddit.org 16 points 11 hours ago

But 8 > 4??? /s

[-] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 11 points 11 hours ago

feet just dont do it for me

[-] ConstantPain@lemmy.world 4 points 8 hours ago

It has to have a person attached.

[-] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 3 points 7 hours ago
[-] Blackmist@feddit.uk 29 points 15 hours ago

I wonder how much her record label makes from her music on Spotify...

[-] gmtom@lemmy.world 7 points 11 hours ago

Industry average is 2/3 goes to the label 1/3 goes to the artist.

[-] Blackmist@feddit.uk 8 points 10 hours ago

Hmm, so we may have a culprit in the case of the missing money.

And although I like Lily, she's not really done a lot of music recently, and was never really that big outside the UK.

[-] Microw@lemm.ee 1 points 4 hours ago

Spotify itself takes an even bigger cut

[-] gmtom@lemmy.world 2 points 7 hours ago

I wouldn't really call it "missing" while it seems kinda shocking at first that labels take that much of a cut, people don't really realise just how many people are involved in music production. From marketing to designers to video editors, social media teams, managers that get them interviews and talk shows and spots at festivals etc. And then all the overhead that comes with those jobs, so finance, HR, IT and facilities etc.

So 1/3 is actually pretty decent and a much bigger cut of the profits than most people get from their labour.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 9 points 14 hours ago

I'm not a huge Lily Allen fan, but her first album was incredible.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfvOEn3GAo0&list=PLI6kLIhBBwmT_XV_24qMWetSE3tX_gvIF

[-] RangerJosie@lemmy.world 40 points 19 hours ago

Good for her. If I thought there was a market for my disgusting claws I'd sell feet pics too.

[-] Blackmist@feddit.uk 11 points 15 hours ago

Be the change you want to see in this world.

[-] m4xie@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

Buy pictures of their own feet?

[-] MellowYellow13@lemmy.world 9 points 15 hours ago
[-] medusa@sh.itjust.works 11 points 14 hours ago
[-] Baaahb@feddit.nl 4 points 8 hours ago

Is it weird that I used to think the reverse? Alfie was Lily's brother, and a nepo baby. I be damned if he didn't earn it though. Also, my first thought was the woman who played "Asha" was not Lily Allen.

[-] affiliate@lemmy.world 6 points 14 hours ago
[-] hornface@fedia.io 5 points 8 hours ago
[-] solarbabies@lemmy.world 5 points 11 hours ago

Reek

(played by Alfie Allen)

Lily's song Alfie is about him.

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[-] feedum_sneedson@lemmy.world 12 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

Perhaps this just means people value her feet more than music? I'm not into feet, but I really didn't like her music, so maybe this is reasonable.

[-] meowMix2525@lemm.ee 18 points 15 hours ago

Not really. It just means onlyfans pays more than Spotify... which seems obvious to me??? A direct subscription to an artist vs only a few cents per play... yeah, no brainer, the artist is going to make less money in the latter deal.

[-] EnderMB@lemmy.world 31 points 20 hours ago

Something I've noticed in British media as of late is that OnlyFans makes some serious money - enough so that a creator can essentially use local journalism as an outlet for promoting their page.

I doubt some of the figures, but if you were to dig into them you'd probably see that number after the media have basically told people "look! Lily Allen has OnlyFans!"

Alongside that, funny enough, OnlyFans is probably one of the UK's biggest tech success stories. They make a lot of money, have only a few employees, and are basically leaders in their field. That's probably another weighing towards this being a promo piece.

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[-] Nosavingthrow@lemmy.world 155 points 1 day ago

Damn, spotify truly is a scourge to artists.

[-] KoalaUnknown@lemmy.world 5 points 14 hours ago

Yep, spotify pays a fraction of what napster, tidal, and apple music pay while raking in record profits each year.

[-] dan@upvote.au 3 points 11 hours ago
[-] KoalaUnknown@lemmy.world 2 points 7 hours ago

Yep, it is a legal streaming service now.

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[-] mox@lemmy.sdf.org 113 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Some years ago, an artist who was not a mega-star but was on all the major music services published an article detailing how well each one paid. I'm now kicking myself for not bookmarking it. I clearly remember Spotify being among the worst, if not the worst.

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