[geden]

It’s more complex than that. A major reason artists don’t like Spotify because Spotify shows the number of track streams and regular listeners. This has a huge negative effect on many artists mental health.

Artists signed to Major label’s might get <20% of Spotify’s payment (often substantially less than that after the various spurious desuctions). Indie labels frequently pay 50% of net profits though.

Spotify’s rate per stream is certainly low. And they are in no way artist friendly.

(I manage artists).

[Moru]

Thanks for the confirmation, this is what I have seen talked about for a long time. I'm so sad for all those artists bound to big labels. Believe the pirates are costing them money when they could be their biggest advertisement board. I would preffer not to fuel the whole record industry when I know the artists creating the actual art gets such a small cut. Not only the singer or the song writers but album artists, sound engineers and so on. And I have seen some of the "various spurious desuctions" on paper, it's insane but good name for it.

I guess a lot of older artists that made it young would do it differently if they knew more about how the rest of the world works.