Let's not touch on vaccine conspiracy theories. This pandemic is already a touchy subject for many, and we need to strictly stick to engaging in conversation of audio and music. Let's refrain from questioning other people's choices as well.Are the artists removing their product from spotify or is it Pfizer?
Neil Young sold his rights to Hipgnosis, who are owned by Blackstone, who control Pfizer.
Nothing is how it seems.
Let's not touch on vaccine conspiracy theories. This pandemic is already a touchy subject for many, and we need to strictly stick to engaging in conversation of audio and music. Let's refrain from questioning other people's choices as well.
Here’s the summary from the article. Amazon’s payout is confusing because it varies per product, same with YouTube. Apple Music, Napster, and Tidal appear to pay the best on average. With Tidal’s new artist payment plans that were recently rolled out, I’d say they’re the most artist-friendly among this group. BandCamp, of course, is in an entirely different league, far above all of these.However, how are the other streaming providers? Idealists? What about Amazon? Apple? ...and so on..
Just take this: How much pay, % compensation goes to musicians / artists?
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This Is What Music Streaming Services Pay Artists
All the numbers: Spotify; TikTok; YouTube; Apple Music and moremedium.com
I think if most people in this day and age were to become “conscious consumers”, they'd revert to owning physical copies of music they liked and listened to. It's an amalgamation of technology and convenience that has pushed streaming to the forefront of consumption, but to each their own. I personally purchase my music that I like to listen to and do tend to purchase it on Bandcamp, often with more than the value suggested for the said piece of music. At the end of the day, musicians and artists are human too and toil to put out their art.Here’s the summary from the article. Amazon’s payout is confusing because it varies per product, same with YouTube. Apple Music, Napster, and Tidal appear to pay the best on average. With Tidal’s new artist payment plans that were recently rolled out, I’d say they’re the most artist-friendly among this group. BandCamp, of course, is in an entirely different league, far above all of these.
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In my defense, I did not know about this with the Covid debate policy on ASR. Now I know that and I accept it to 100%. There are other forums where it can be discussed.One post deleted, one thread ban issued, and I am giving a last chance offer to keep the Covid politics out of this thread.
Cheers...
Sad that discussion of a pandemic disease has become "political." But back to the issue of music itself, I wonder how many additional artists might follow Young and Mitchell, and how that might affect Spotify's viability as a music streaming service moving forward. Their reaction to Young suggests that podcasts might be a more important part of their business model than music, which may be why they haven't followed through with higher-resolution streaming.One post deleted, one thread ban issued, and I am giving a last chance offer to keep the Covid politics out of this thread.
Cheers...
That seems like a plausible theory. Spotify has never shown much profit from streaming and it appears they’ve made a hard turn toward podcasting with big payouts to Rogan and others. From my perspective (YMMV), the list of reasons to not support their service is growing longer and longer.Sad that discussion of a pandemic disease has become "political." But back to the issue of music itself, I wonder how many additional artists might follow Young and Mitchell, and how that might affect Spotify's viability as a music streaming service moving forward. Their reaction to Young suggests that podcasts might be a more important part of their business model than music, which may be why they haven't followed through with higher-resolution streaming.
Hey, you are in Finland. Can you get Amazon Music or Amazon Music HD there? In Denmark we can get nothing. Cheers.Being a health care pro, no other choice for me than signing out of Spotify (premium) now.
I just installed Amazon Music, easy because I already have account there. Amazon Store is not available in my country, but HD seems to work.
First album to listen to and artist to save is Neil Young and Harvest Moon, Joni second!
(now I must find out about Amazon's attitude to podcast topics... How about Tidal?)
Amazon Unlimited is their only dedicated streaming subscription (the other is just a low bitrate freebie you get as a bonus with a Prime subscription), so that's the only one that should be compared like-for-like with Apple, Napster, Tidal etc., and the figures clearly show Unlimited provides the best payout for artists compared to the other equivalent streaming subscriptions.Here’s the summary from the article. Amazon’s payout is confusing because it varies per product, same with YouTube. Apple Music, Napster, and Tidal appear to pay the best on average.
OK, I didn’t understand that. I wonder though, what percentage of their users are on paid versus free (Prime)?Amazon Unlimited is their only dedicated streaming subscription (the other is just a low bitrate freebie you get as a bonus with a Prime subscription), so that's the only one that should be compared like-for-like with Apple, Napster, Tidal etc., and the figures clearly show Unlimited provides the best payout for artists compared to the other equivalent streaming subscriptions.
Famously anti-cd Neil Young, 76 years old, and having done concerts most of his life, still with those golden ears! (Insert multiple laughing emojis)Not intended to further pursue the other reasons behind Young and Mitchell leaving Spotify, but this seemed relevant to the rest of the thread as it pertains to the sound quality:
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Neil Young says he “felt better” after leaving Spotify and its “shitty” sound quality
Spotify has failed to match Apple and Amazon’s hi-fi audio.www.theverge.com
That seems like a plausible theory. Spotify has never shown much profit from streaming and it appears they’ve made a hard turn toward podcasting with big payouts to Rogan and others.