• geophysicist@discuss.tchncs.de
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    7 months ago

    And in 2024, Spotify will stop paying out songs which get less than 1000 streams in a year. Which means for me, as an artist in the early stages of my career, I am going to get paid nothing. I could get over 1000 streams on all my songs in total, but still get paid nothing. I could get 999 streams on a song one year and 999 streams on it the next year… and still get paid nothing.

    As the author states in the previous paragraph, Spotify pays 0.003c per stream. I don’t think the author has done the maths. 1000 streams equals 3c. He’s complaining over not getting paid 3c as if that will fund his career

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      7 months ago

      It’s not 0.003¢ per steam, it’s $0.003. (Actually £0.003, per that article.)

      So 1000 streams should pay $3.

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        7 months ago

        You (or your label who represents you) voluntarily put your music on spotify and can always pull your content if you want.

        Equating this to theft makes zero sense. And your post is universally upvoted. Wtf?