I don't think anything about any of that. I'm purely a consumer, and most likely a bit atypical. Folks like me have no voice in this. For everyone one like me listening to weird shit there are at least 100k if not more people listening to Taylor Swift. The masses don't care about "semi-pro artists" at all. As long as they have what they want, they're going to pay for Spotify. What I do is a drop in the bucket. I think all of KVR is a drop in the bucket. If all of KVR killed their spotify accounts then the only thing that you would change is that interesting niche artists would get a few fewer listens.I guess it all boils down to whether you think music by semi-pro artists should just be like some kind of folk music which gets passed around freely without any kind of significant monetary reward for the artist, which is not necessarily a bad thing, depending on your motivations and whether you mind the industry profiting from that.
So time will tell whether or not this has any impact. By impact I mean in terms of their catalog which would make spotify less interesting to me. I'm not sure that anything else would be better. However, it might open the window for a different kind of service that appealed to people who were into niche music in some way.Now they have this new rule of only paying artists who get 1,000 plays for any song, that’s pretty much the end of any reward for me. Maybe we should think of Spotify as just a promotional tool and sell the majority of our work elsewhere. 1,000 plays amounts to about 3p in royalties. No one is prohibiting the purists from avoiding Spotify completely and trying to make their own way, and total respect to them if so
One of the things that frustrates me is that I can't find all of my old (DJ) vinyl on Spotify. Is there a service with almost every record from the 90s? Probably not. A lot of them used to be on youtube, less so today.
That said, I just looked at the artists who showed up on my list. Most of them have some monthly views, not much, but e.g., Samuel Organ as some 28k monthly listeners. Not a lot in the sense of making money, but I have to wonder if even I care about those artists with fewer than 1000 plays. Even Anna Homler has some 8k monthly plays and Nadi Qamar has 5k. I guess that earns him some 15p/month?
Let me be clear, Nadi's album is cool, but I would not buy it if I had to buy this music to listen to it. I would just listen to something else. So you have to weigh that in your calculus.
Statistics: Posted by ghettosynth — Tue Feb 06, 2024 10:11 am