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Lily Allen Makes More Money from OnlyFans Than Spotify
(consequence.net)
Spotify is a fucking racket
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.
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.
But 8 > 4??? /s
feet just dont do it for me
It has to have a person attached.
no kiddin.
I wonder how much her record label makes from her music on Spotify...
Industry average is 2/3 goes to the label 1/3 goes to the artist.
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.
Spotify itself takes an even bigger cut
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.
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
Good for her. If I thought there was a market for my disgusting claws I'd sell feet pics too.
Be the change you want to see in this world.
Buy pictures of their own feet?
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.
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.
Who?
Theon Greyjoy's sister
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.
who’s sister?
whose
Reek
(played by Alfie Allen)
Lily's song Alfie is about him.
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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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Damn, spotify truly is a scourge to artists.
Yep, spotify pays a fraction of what napster, tidal, and apple music pay while raking in record profits each year.
napster
what
Yep, it is a legal streaming service now.
The entire music industry is built to grift money from musicians and Spotify is a second layer of musician grifting industry built on the first.
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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.
The musician I saw last week mentioned that he'll get more money if you buy a CD from him now than if you stream his catalog on spotify for the rest of your life.
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