[nutshell89]

I really wish Spotify or Apple offered the ability for the listener to simply listen all of the songs released on their platform on a day or a week, good or bad, and directly pay the artists for the songs listeners enjoy. Spotify's "New Releases" for example, tracks only music that major labels promote, or that fit a predetermined genre, or are similar to the songs and artists that you already listen to.

There are smaller services yes, which allow for independent promotion and distribution (Last.fm, RateYourMusic) but these have fairly obvious flaws in how the listener can approach new music (RYM pushes ratings first and foremost, and both last.fm and rym push trending artists to their users).

Instead, because the value of music is zero (really, negative since the number of listens, streams, album purchases, etc can fail to recuperate the cost to make it ), the act of distributing music presents economic risk unless the release itself can be controlled by the investors through advertisement or paid promotion.

[fantasybuilder]

IIRC Spotify has around 100K new tracks added daily.