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Reilly Spitzfaden (they/them)

"The CEO of Spotify thinks music is made for free and is his to sell, promoted as ‘content’. Please always try to buy records (‘vinyl’), cds, T-Shirts and go to gigs where you can afford to support bands you love."

#Streaming #Spotify #PayMusicians #MusicNews #Music #PhysicalMedia

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3 June at 19:00 | Open on hachyderm.io
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BinaryDigit :prami:
Dave Heumann

@reillypascal Also, buy digital copies from Bandcamp, Faircamp, etc., because some of us are releasing straight to digital and not putting out physical copies at all

3 June at 19:20 | Open on heads.social
Reilly Spitzfaden (they/them)

@dave_heumann oh absolutely, in fact a lot of what I buy is digital copies from Bandcamp

3 June at 19:27 | Open on hachyderm.io
Simone Silvestroni

@reillypascal @dave_heumann been doing that for a long time. Also, my advice is to stop putting music on parasitic entities such as Spotify. I removed my music from there, deleted my account, and never looked back.

3 June at 22:41 | Open on sonomu.club
Dave Heumann

@m2m @reillypascal Right on. The only stuff I have up there was put there by a record label. I haven't put anything up there that I independently released, and haven't been interested in doing so.

4 June at 0:15 | Open on heads.social
sri

@reillypascal If you are in the U.S. please talk to your representatives about breaking up live nation and others - we are all being exploited there. We could also do with much better fee structure for venues.

3 June at 23:24 | Open on floss.social
ikt 🇺🇦

@reillypascal it's true, there is literally so much content today it's impossible to keep up, I saw someone complaining that Spotify was recommending too much new music to them...

the biggest issue facing a new band or musician today isn't making amazing music, because there's so much out there, it's promotion

the other issue that's coming up is a sort of buridans donkey, there is so much content people don't know what to watch so they stick to pop music/tv/movies/the algo

4 June at 0:00 | Open on fosstodon.org
wendinaokland
Lunatic at Large 🇨🇦️

@wendinoakland @reillypascal @lydialurch I never had it in the first place, so 🖕 to Mr. Ek.

4 June at 2:42 | Open on stranger.social
Reilly Spitzfaden (they/them)

@wendinoakland yeah I refuse to use it in the first place—if I find anything I like, I buy downloads/physical media

4 June at 5:58 | Open on hachyderm.io
Jordi (Vascular Ensemble)
Merula Passeri

@reillypascal Any musician here that can confirm, that #Tidal is less bad than #Spotify when it comes to paying musicians? I switched a few months back after reading a similar blog post, but never got an independent confirmation.

4 June at 4:15 | Open on social.tchncs.de
INPC

@Merula @reillypascal marginally but whilst they pay slightly more per stream, it’s much fewer streams.

The best way to support music is buy the physical or files. Indie musicians do way better from services like Bandcamp and Mirlo.

4 June at 5:03 | Open on mxtthxw.art
INPC

@reillypascal Also musicians, stop putting your music on there.

We all know we’ll barely make a pence from them but they want us to be dancing monkeys doing their promo.

4 June at 4:56 | Open on mxtthxw.art
Miriam2k22

@reillypascal@hachyderm.io Yikes! I feel less guilty for using apps that leech off of a Spotify sub without paying for it. 😬

(I do buy albums on Bandcamp, since that benefits artists a bit better for now.)

4 June at 6:03 | Open on kitty.social
Nielso

@reillypascal

I have been on Spotify with an albums for 9 years now. This gave me 9,78€ so far, which I'd have to share with the band members from back then.

Since the record was released in 2015, we were able to sell CDs back then. Approx. 1/3 of our audience had a CD player still, and for the rest we provided Bandcamp download codes. It was possible to pay the recording this way.

Recording as a service is one of the things I offer professionally today, but musicians don't buy this no more. Since Streaming has killed the CD almost entirely, most musicians cannot afford a recording engineer any more.

But already in 2015, people told me: I cannot listen to your record, it is not on iTunes. So they simply ignored it.

It's not Spotify's fault alone. It's also the listeners who don't give a fuck about putting any effort into collecting music, buying music, finding music, etc.

@reillypascal

I have been on Spotify with an albums for 9 years now. This gave me 9,78€ so far, which I'd have to share with the band members from back then.

Since the record was released in 2015, we were able to sell CDs back then. Approx. 1/3 of our audience had a CD player still, and for the rest we provided Bandcamp download codes. It was possible to pay the recording this way.

4 June at 6:45 | Open on digitalcourage.social
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