[reducesuffering]

They both seem primitive. If a user paid $10/month for a subscription, each month they should divvy that $10 to the proportional minutes listened of each artist for that month. That’s paying out to the people that are keeping that person subscribed. Minus Spotify’s cut of course

[conradfr]

I'm sure that's where most people think their subscription money goes but the industry made sure it's not.

[DrJokepu]

That’s kind of how SoundCloud does it (they call it user-centric payment model), it has the added benefit of curtailing fraud.