[pud]

Hope you find my Medium post thought provoking.

Incentives in the music industry are setup such that any company offering promotional services to artists (ad agency, PR firm, promoter, radio promo, marketing department, etc) can quietly go to fiverr.com, buy 100,000 bot streams for $20, then take credit for their client’s rise in popularity—-getting the artist to pay again.

Which, because of how streaming services pay, steals from artists who have real/organic streams.

[CodesInChaos]

I'd like fixed price per play to get replaced by something closer to splitting a users subscription fees based on the time they spent listening to a particular song/artist.

[snthd]

Exactly this - https://www.deezer.com/ucps ("User-Centric Payment System"). To my knowledge Deezer hasn't (yet?) implemented this model.

[entropicdrifter]

I might be wrong but I think Youtube Premium uses that pricing model. At least their FAQ seems to imply that's what's going on: https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/6306276?hl=en

[oh_sigh]

It's weird to me that a large share of my spotify monthly fees go to Ed Sheeran and Drake and Taylor Swift even though I literally have never streamed them, and almost none of my monthly fee goes towards the artist that I stream all the time.

[slothtrop]

https://resonate.is/ has a stream-to-own model

[zapataband1]

this 100%

[itronitron]

Are there any music curating channels on YT or elsewhere that can filter through that mess? I guess the challenge there is keeping the curator honest and not 'sponsored'