Spotify to raise prices, then pay musicians even less.

If your music is on Spotify, why? Are you so successful that you enjoy subsidizing Spotify executives' extravagant lifestyles?

https://www.billboard.com/business/streaming/spotify-songwriters-less-mechanical-royalties-audiobooks-bundle-1235673829/amp/

#FuckSpotify #SpotifyIsAScam #GetOffSpotify

Spotify to Pay Songwriters About $150 Million Less Next Year With Premium, Duo, Family Plan Changes

Spotify will potentially pay songwriters about $150 million less in U.S. mechanical royalties next year after bundling its plans with audiobooks.

Billboard

Society is increasingly a series of more and more obvious and exploitative scams that we're tacitly "required" to participate in, but guess what? No one's actually required to have their music there and if everyone stops, they can't run their scam any more.

It's especially easy for most of the people who will see this to pull your music; I'm willing to bet most of you are making, at best, a few hundred a year, maybe a couple thousand if you're very lucky.

Is that worth it? Really?

@etherdiver I don't make anything tbh and never will either way thus - #homeless

But I agree

@etherdiver

Just as proof