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We’re just talked a whole lot about music streaming- what more is there to be said? Well, what if I told you that favorite music streaming service may have an evil side? If you’ve been tuned in for a while, you might jump to think Youtube or Apple, but what if we told you it was… just about all of them?
Sources:
Spotify’s User Count:
Spotify’s Payout Method & Estimated Rates:
- ‘Manatt, Phelps & Phillips LLP’, 17 August 2018, How Streaming Services Pay Songwriters (Infographic)
- Music Ally, 5 May 2020, ‘Spotify should pay musicians more? Let’s talk more about how’
- Ditto Music, 28 December 2020, “How Much Do Music Streaming Services Pay Musicians in 2021“
- The Trichordist, 5 March 2020, “2019-2020 Streaming Price Bible : YouTube is STILL The #1 Problem To Solve“
Spotify’s “Pay for Plays” equivalent strategy:
- Spotify Newsroom, 2 November 2020, “Amplifying Artist Input in Your Personalized Recommendations”
- Hack – triple j, 17 November 2020, “Should Spotify pay more per stream? How artists have to play the ‘digital marketing game’ in 2020”
“Fake Artists”:
- NPR, 12 July 2017, “https://www.npr.org/sections/therecord/2017/07/12/536670493/spotify-is-accused-of-creating-fake-artists-but-what-is-a-fake-artist”
- The Ringer, 16 January 2019, “Is Spotify’s Model Wiping Out Music’s Middle Class?”
- Junkee, 14 September 2020, “Junk Explained: How “Fake” Bands Are Taking Over Spotify And Fooling The Algorithm”
- Rolling Stone, 15 May 2019, “‘Fake Artists’ Have Billions of Streams on Spotify. Is Sony Now Playing the Service at Its Own Game?”
“Justice At Spotify” Campaign:
Mentioned Apple Music Class Action & Dismissal:
- Apple Insider, 25 May 2019, “Apple facing class action lawsuit over alleged iTunes & Apple Music data sale”
- Apple Insider, 26 November 2019, “Judge dismisses class action involving iTunes and Apple Music data privacy“
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