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• Open source Spotify client that doesn't require Premium nor uses Electron

  According to Spotify's data report site[0], there were 17,800 artists grossing over $50k from Spotify, out of a denominator of ~8 million, or 200k if you use Spotify's estimate of “professional or professionally aspiring”. I don't know much at all about the music industry, so I don't really have a conclusion from those data, but that seems low. It also does put a (not insignificant) number on the independents... - Source: Hacker News / 5 months ago

• [Megathread] Spotify Stream On 2023 Event (10am PT / 1pm CT / 6pm GMT)

  They’ve updated their Loud & Clear page with stats from 2022 on royalty payments and overall Artist payouts. Source: over 1 year ago

• Greens vow to pay artists, musicians and other creatives a living wage

  Just 20% of spotify artists have more than 50 listeners. Additionally there are an estimate 80 million total tracks on Spotify and only 719,000 tracks have more than 1 million views, that's less than 1%. Haken are literally in the top 1% of artists on spotify. This is based on 2021 data: https://loudandclear.byspotify.com/. Source: over 1 year ago

• Dear Spotify. Can we just get table of songs?

  AFAIK royalties are paid out for every stream over 30 seconds long. The 'context' (album, playlist, single play) doesn't matter. "royalties [are] based on an artist’s share of overall streams across the platform" [1] My guess is that playlists lead to more engagement than albums. Users listen longer, and discover new music, which leads to more listening in the future. [1]... - Source: Hacker News / about 2 years ago

• Spotify and Google Announce User Choice Billing

  > This is where I shrug my shoulders and say "Why not [blame] both?" I've yet to see any of these discussions to blame both. And your own comment literally never mentions the Big Three. > can all be screwing over creators in conjunction with their publishers. I prefer not to wade in to conspiracy territory. Apple may have power over the industry, but they are an outlier. The rest do whatever the industry tels them... - Source: Hacker News / about 2 years ago