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that’s just spotify, i assume you would also have youtube, apple music, and bandcamp and also do live performances on top

it’s never been easy to make money in music, these guys will tell you:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=g-qkY2yj4_A

and that was the 70’s, as mentioned earlier:

In 2024, more musicians are making and releasing music than ever before. In fact, a new report has found that more music is released in a single day now than in the entire year of 1989.

the market is flooded, you’ll need to really put a lot of effort in to break out

That is basically nothing for any artist that isn’t in the top tier of mainstream success.

Did you not read your own article you linked to?

• 1,000 monthly streams ≈ $3-5 (enough for a coffee)
• 10,000 monthly streams ≈ $30-50 (could cover your streaming subscription)
• 100,000 monthly streams ≈ $300-500 (now we’re talking meaningful income)
• 1,000,000 monthly streams ≈ $3,000-5,000 (potentially livable wage depending on your location.

https://simplebeen.com/artists-make-on-spotify/

You’re essentially pirating music by using Spotify

As above, you can see the payout rates in the article… a liveable wage on just Spotify alone is not equivalent to piracy which pays artists nothing, this is on top of Apple Music etc

In 2024, Spotify alone paid out a record $10 billion to the music industry—totaling nearly $60 billion since our founding.

10 billion in a year is not piracy (which is $0), are you the author of the article?

In 2024, Spotify alone paid out a record $10 billion to the music industry—totaling nearly $60 billion since our founding.

https://newsroom.spotify.com/2025-01-28/on-our-10-billion-milestone-and-a-decade-of-getting-the-world-to-value-music/

You have to remember that prior to Spotify the music industry was desperate, as people turned to downloading mp3’s illegally the music industry basically just resorted to suing people who potentially downloaded a song.

I’m also very highly sceptical of this whole article, from the crappy accounting to

Lidarr is just a tool. Like any tool, it can be misused. Yes, people could point it at less-than-legal sources

My setup uses sabnzbd integrated with Lidarr for handling downloads of content I’ve purchased

Riiiiiight.

You’re just hooked up into a piracy platform that pays artists nothing by coincidence.

On top of this:

In 2024, more musicians are making and releasing music than ever before. In fact, a new report has found that more music is released in a single day now than in the entire year of 1989.

Music simply isn’t a high value product anymore, the market is flooded, there is more music coming out per minute now than you can listen to.

But it’s all good, I’ll keep paying for Spotify because Spotify pays all the artists I listen to.

Majority of music is in albums, nearly 12,000 different tracks listened to, but most are singles, I rarely listen to albums from start to finish

I listen to a lot of music in general

https://aussie.zone/post/19441027/16055498

Also I figured out you can turn off the payola:

To opt out of receiving sponsored recommendations, go to your Spotify account on desktop > Account > Privacy settings > turn off Tailored ads.

This will opt you out of receiving sponsored recommendations and personalized ads generally across our product. If you turn off Tailored ads, you will continue receiving podcast ads in your Premium account, but they will not be tailored to you.

So even if you broke it down to me just having to buy singles I’m still getting a ridiculous amount of value from Spotify

Monthly Cost $9.99-$14.99 One-time server setup + storage

The problem is that’s not the monthly cost because (in addition to running a server not being a one time thing, they need maintenance) it’s not including the cost to actually buy all the music:

Digital purchases (Bandcamp, iTunes, Amazon, etc.)

For me:

https://www.last.fm/user/ikt123/listening-report/year

Paying for 7808 albums in 1 year is unfeasible, so this is not a replacement for Spotify for me, it could be though if you only listen to a tiny amount of music, at current rate of $15 a month for me, it’s equal to like 1 album and like several smaller singles, if this is all you listen to in a month go for it.

😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱🫨🫨🫨🫨🫨🫨😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱 NNOOOOOO WAAAAYYYY DDUUUUUUUDDDEEEEEE 🥀🥀🥀🥀🥀🥀🥀🥀🥀

LOL lemmy moment

Like this one?

In 2024, approximately 7,500 millionaires left the UK, a figure that was already cause for concern among UK policymakers. However, in 2025, this number has more than doubled to a record 16,500, marking the steepest annual increase of HNWI net outflows on record.

https://www.forthcapital.com/au/articles/2025-wealth-migration-why-a-record-16-500-millionaires-are-leaving-the-uk-and-where-theyre-going

HELL YEAH

TOO COOL FOR SCHOOL

sounds like they’re working for big bug

so it was about potential brand damage that doesn’t exist? and/or has this actually brand damaged visa and mastercard more than ignoring collective shout?

Removed by mod

is the joke that bill nye is a science nerd and you’re using the language of urban youth?

We don’t want to make Wikipedia-style appeals

do it

You should make one using AI, on every page load it generates a random image and has the caption of something completely different

AI wars

yep the biggest worry isn’t AI, it’s India

https://www.worldometers.info/co2-emissions/india-co2-emissions/

The west is lowering its co2 output while India is slurping up all the co2 we’re saving:

This doesn’t include China of course, the most egregious of the co2 emitters

AI is not even a tiny blip on that radar, especially as AI is in data centres and devices which runs on electricity so the more your country goes to renewables the less co2 impacting it is over time

we’re rolling out renewables at like 100x the rate of ai electricity use, so no need to worry there

what models are going nuts?

i don’t really give a shit why he’s donating and i don’t know why you attach yourself to conspiracy theories like a trump supporter, he’s donating, he’s helping, that’s all i need to know:

Before the Gates efforts on malaria, malaria drugmakers had largely given up on producing drugs to fight the disease, and the foundation is the world’s largest donor to research on diseases of the poor.[139]

With the help of Gates-funded vaccination drives, deaths from measles in Africa have dropped by 90 percent since 2000.[140]

The foundation has donated billions of dollars to help sufferers of AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria, protecting millions of children from death at the hands of preventable diseases.[140]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gates_Foundation

what’s to be fooled with? i appreciate that he donates and advocates to help people with his money

there are plenty of other billionaires you’ll never hear of and they’ll never have to hear you complain because they don’t step into the limelight at all and just horde their money instead