[gabereiser]

Never the artists, always the labels or distribution company (not always the same).

But to your point. Pre-Spotify I think the overall music market sales volumes and profits, offset by piracy and copyright infringement, ended up around the same overall total market value that Spotify based their subscription and payments off of (that and economics of scale).

I’ve been a Spotify subscriber for a long time so I get it. I just wish Spotify would do more to support artists, not labels, or help fix the system for indies to self-distribute.

It’s obviously way more complicated. I dream of a utopia where a platform exists not for profits sake but for the art’s sake.