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> “Spotify killed revenue flow for anyone outside of the publishers and big artists/ players. Spotify basically killed any money coming from the physical distribution”

To the contrary, physical distribution was only available to big artists/players. There was mostly no way for independent artists to get into the record stores.

Streaming (via distributors like DistroKid) made it possible for millions of independent artists to make money from their music.

Source: DistroKid founder here. Hi.