“In April 2024, Spotify implemented a new scheme: songs with less than 1k streams per year would no longer receive royalties.

John Maxwell

@jonhicks "But we have to have copyright for the sake of the creators!"

devolute

@jonhicks Steal everything. Go to gigs.

MegatronicThronBanks

🇨🇦 Maverick ✊🇲🇲🇺🇦

@jonhicks Not going to be a popular comment here because it’s so cool to hate on Apple, but Apple Music pays about double to artists compared with Spotify and doesn’t have a free tier (so *all* listens are paid). Still better to support your favourite artists directly but Apple Music is clearly better than Spotify in this regard. Always has been.

Jon Hicks

@devolute or… buy physical media AND go to gigs AND stream as well?

devolute

@jonhicks Music is too important to rely on someone else's trickles down from a cloud.

Jon Hicks

@obrhoff @nevyn the core problem of Spotify has always been there - that they took advantage of an industry worried about Napster. I’ve always justified using it because I buy music as well, but not with decisions like adverts for ICE and investing in Helsing AI .

My work with them was quite brief in the end - I think my icons only lasted a year before they replaced them with thin iOS 7 style ones!

Bojan Landekić

@jonhicks I am a musician but I never make any money. I quit being a Spotify customer when I discovered their CEO was financially supporting military AI from Germany or something evil like that. That money should have gone to the musicians. Now my music is on Bandcamp.

Banapana

@jonhicks @myrobotfriend Ugh. I thought independence would screw the music industry but then the tech bros took over the music industry and showed them how to *really* screw, nickel and dime artists and the audience.

Colin Devroe

@jonhicks this is unbelievable. Spotify had/has the best recommendation “algorithm” I’ve ever experienced. But they seem to be artist hostile.

miki

@jonhicks This is not unexpected, I guess there are plenty of scammers around that just spam Spotify with keyword stuffing or whatever.

What's a lot more interesting to me is how many *listens* have been demonetized. That's not such a "tech is evil" statistic though, so the media better not report it I guess.