CM-003 Wintegrity  Nov 29, 2023
🌸 fact is, if you pay for Spotify you are giving the company $120 a year, but for the bands you listen to to collectively get $120 a year at $0.003 per stream, you would have to stream 40,000 songs, which is something in the realm of 5 hours of music a day depending on the length of songs you listen to. maybe you listen to 5 hours of music a day, I certainly do some days--maybe you even do that every day. but if you pirated all that music for free and spent $20 on either a merch item or going to a show from 6 bands then you've given $120 to artists without any going to a streaming service (and yeah they won't keep 100% of that the merch costs something etc but it's a hell of a lot more than a third of a cent per song) regardless of how many songs you listened to for free

this burned out music artist is just begging you to just torrent and soulseek and share with friends and stop feeding the corporate machine that's strangling music
Show threadAaron

@winter This makes me want to start a music streaming service where I am collecting $120 a year for every user, but I am paying 80% of that to artists, and instead of a fixed price per stream, artists will get paid a different amount per subscriber based on their share of that subscriber's listens that month.

If I listen to only a single artist that year, they get all $96.

Also the music apps would actually be good.

Nov 30, 2023 at 12:05amIvory for Mac
Show threadKaterina MarchánNov 30, 2023
@harpaa01 @winter I think Ampled or Resonate did something like this and I’m told it was a confusing mess
Show threadDHeadshot's AltDec 2, 2023
@harpaa01 @winter Problem is getting buy-in from labels. Or, if you go entirely Indie, paying for the infrastructure...
Show threadAaronDec 2, 2023

@ddlyh If most of the tinier artists were also signed with the big four labels I could see the labels being game because they'd probably get the same amount of $$$; it'd just change the distribution of which artists are getting how much.

But I suspect none of the big four would be game because the tinier artists aren't signed with them.