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Due to an upcoming change next year. Big companies have bought into spotify and they want to keep the money for themselves. The whole streaming thing is a con, it's rigged and not in musician's favour.
It is about spotify themselves: each song uploaded there causes same amount of costs for them. Now they are trying to get rid of some less streamed stuff. And for white noise and other low-effort stuff it is good if they disappear.
If album purchaser on scenario a listens album 40 times vs same amount of streams in spotify give you same income. If listener continues to listen your physical album, you won't get any more money, in spotify you get. Is it easier to sell album or get 4k listens in spotify? At least I am pretty reluctant to pay for album of unknown artist. Or when I purchased albums, only from names I know. In spotify I listen various, even very small artists.
Logic how money comes is much different on album sales and streaming, but I am not so sure which is better. Old world with albums sold in music store was good for big names, but small artists could not get anything. Now you don't need contract with label or money to press your own album, can release all for free. If you make good music, it may get attention and listeners years later. Last spring I had over 500 monthly listeners in spotify with zero production cost, zero publishing cost, zero marketing cost. Latest song was 3 years old. Biggest number of listeners are from US, I live in Finland. With old physical albums, nobody would have heard my music, ever.
Digital Vs Physical distribution is not the argument, streaming is not the only way to distribute music on the internet. It's just the worst. The worst quality and the worst paying. 500 streams round the world but you could have got more money selling a a couple of CDR's at a local gig for the price of a beer each.
Spotify and most other streaming services are a leech on the music world. At something like 0.003c per play, you will need a lot of plays to just buy a beer. And of course you can't just upload to Spotify, you need a distributor like Distrokid whose basic rate is $22.99 per year. It will take 7,666 plays to cover your Distrokid subscription.
It's just capitalism at work and the little guy gets screwed, as it has always been. Capitalists gotta capitalise.
Possibly it might be worst for artist, but best for most of the customers. I don't recall hearing someone buying digital albums in last 10 years anymore, and I am not interested to have digital downloads on my disk anymore. Managing what files are on which computer or mobile device, etc, no thanks.
Sure there is people doing it, and even small sales might make more profits than streaming. But potential with streaming is higher: more people will hear your music, and there is (very small) possibility that it will come big hit.
Spotify and most other streaming services are a leech on the music world. At something like 0.003c per play, you will need a lot of plays to just buy a beer. And of course you can't just upload to Spotify, you need a distributor like Distrokid whose basic rate is $22.99 per year. It will take 7,666 plays to cover your Distrokid subscription.
It's just capitalism as work and the little guy gets screwed, as it has always been. Capitalists gotta capitalise.
There is free of charge distributors like Routenote, they just take small share of your revenues. Sure it might be that with distrokid you get something more, but I am just not willing to pay for it. My costs for releasing music are zero. (If wanting to use that, and want to thank me with zero cost, use my referal code 2f750c92 on registering)
Yeah, they have sold 14.2M albums last year. In scope of worldwide not too much, and no wonder I am at least not aware that any of my friends buying albums anymore. And to compare scale, spotify has 551M users monthly, it means something like every spotify user would get one album every 38 years from bandcamp.
I think that is a good point. There is more money to be made for musicians if the middle man is cut out. We might hear about the benefits of the free market, but sadly a lot of corporations aren't sticking to the rules as laid out in The Wealth Of Nations, the original book on the subject.
Milking an income stream, like Spotify do, is called 'rent seeking' and is something to be prevented. It's probably illegal in some sense. Worse than Spotify, who are simply hapless middle men, is Universal Music Group. They truly are rent seeking from the back catalogue of music they've bought the rights to. They don't do anything, simply milk their income stream. A crime against humanity, as UMG bought a whole lot of master tapes by the likes of Duke Ellington and classic Motown, which were stored in a warehouse which went on fire, losing all these priceless master tapes. UMG can't be trusted to look after music, simply to squeeze it for all it's worth. UMG have negotiated a special deal with Spotify, which is where most of your 9.99 subscription is going.
Had a look. That song is on a label called "NoCopyrightSounds" Their youtube channel has over 30 million subs and their songs have hundreds of millions of views there. Plus it says on his spotify bio that he had a previous song that was used in Chinese tik tok memes.
Sure, tiktok and other videos are why his song got so popular. But there were other people doing those videos, he did not need to do anything.
I think NCS is not much like big labels, but not sure really. At least Alan Walker started there, but then jumped to big label.
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I paid for premium a few hours ago, i have it in my bank history but my premium doesnt work even after reinstalling spotify, The only thing that was differwnt is my paypal though it was the same card so
Could you double-check your subscription status over on the account page? If it shows up as Premium, make sure you log in with the same email address in the app as the one that's displayed on your account page.
It's also worth logging out from the app and then logging back in again, as this action will resync the account info.
If your subscription status on the account page shows up as Free and you're still not seeing the Premium features in the app, it's possible that you might have signed up to Premium using another account. In that case, I would suggest checking this page for additional steps on how to find an account.
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So I started the free 3 month trial and I have the receipt in my e-mail but my account doesn't have the premium. I have already signed out and made sure the app is up to date but nothing. I am still on the free plan and not the free 3 month individual plan. Any explanations
Ok so I signed out of all accounts no premium but then I sign in on my phone and click sign in with apple ID and I have this whole different account with the premium on it. But that doesn't make sense because these accounts have different emails and the account with apple ID doesn't even have the email that I used to sign up for the premium.
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@LoganChaleunsap - It sounds like you might have signed up for multiple Spotify accounts and started the subscription on an account connected to your Apple ID. Keep in mind that it's possible to register for an account in many different ways - for example via Facebook, Google, Apple or using an email address.
What you can do in this case is to check which Spotify you'd like to keep. For example, perhaps you prefer to keep the account with the most amount of playlists. An option, if you're not using the one that's linked to your Apple ID, is to cancel the Premium subscription there, to ensure that you're not getting charged for that account in the future. You cancel a subscription at anytime, just head over to the account page > Manage your plan > Cancel plan. Make sure to log in to the account page using the option Continue with Apple, this way you'll reach that account right away.
Once it's been canceled, simply sign out by clicking Profile in the top right corner > Log out. When you log back in again, enter the details for your other Spotify account. You can then head over to the Premium page to get started with a subscription on that account instead. When you're signing back in to the app using the same login details, you should see the Premium features right away.
You can also copy playlists over from one account to another following the steps on this page.
Should you run into any issues canceling the subscription, we suggest getting in touch with our Customer Support team. They have the best tools to help further in your case, as we don't have access to accounts here on the Community.
Hope this clears things up! We're just a post away if anything else pops up.