[fallingsquirrel]

> Spotify pays around 70% of its revenue to their artists

Nit: They pay ~70% to labels, not to artists. The artists make much less.

> The actual recording artists? “They’re keeping anywhere between 5% and a quarter.”

https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/music/story/2021-...

[oktoberpaard]

I saw an estimation somewhere that Lily Allen’s label gets a daily payout of $4000, which is probably much more than what she makes from 1000 OnlyFans subscribers. The issue is indeed that the amount that she gets is probably much lower than that. That begs the question: is it Spotify that is the problem, or the record industry.