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Spotify eats music; Souvenirs; Mindful capitalism
- Spotify has inserted sponsored songs in listeners’ playlists, and has also discussed charging artists and labels for data about their habits.
from Spotify’s Newest Pitch to Labels and Musicians: Now You Pay Us by Bloomberg Businessweek
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- Creating ways to connect with listeners could offer Spotify a way to combat the enduring narrative that it’s screwing over musicians.
from Spotify's missing money-maker is artist-to-fan messaging by Josh Constine
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- Second, creators are already exploited: Spotify is very much like the universal searchable information database for music, it just operates for profit rather than for artists, and rights-holders get a fraction of a cent per Spotify play, an amount that must itself split between the label, the producer, the artist, and the songwriter. The CEO of Spo... See more
from The Truth Is Paywalled But The Lies Are Free ❧ Current Affairs by Nathan Robinson
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