Meh, I dropped them more than a year ago because I just can't stand having 60% of my ui be bullshit podcasts that I don't want.
this post was submitted on 24 Jul 2023
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It's my fault guys, just the other day I was thinking of how they had never raised the subscription price (in my country), unlike Netflix, which felt like they were raising it every year.
I love they have to sensationalize the title because if they said “raised prices by a dollar” most folks would wonder why it’s a headline.
My partner and I are on the Duo plan because there are only two of us. The price is going from $13 to $15, so it's not just the family plan that's getting raised.
Do what I did. Get some homies to be part of the fam and they throw your a few bones. 16$ split why 6 folk
Hard to be too upset about this. Everything’s getting more expensive, and I’m assuming music rights holders have been squeezing Spotify more and more. I’d love to go back to music piracy, but having an enormous library available at a moment’s notice is worth the extra dollar to me. I do have a pretty huge collection of video game music since the big N refuses to license their music
Music right holders own spotify. At least the big ones.
Spotify pays very very little to artists per stream. Tidal is a better streaming platform to send money their way.
how much does tidal pay? a quick search showed spotify was only taking 30% in which is in line with steam and apple for digital distribution stuff
https://loudandclear.byspotify.com/#box-2
Nearly 70% of that revenue is paid back as royalties to rights holders
Well, spotify may online take 30% but they funnel.most of the money to their owners, the big record companies.
And 30% is not like the 30% steam takes. If you stream only my songs (yes, I'm on spotify) for a whole months, maybe every day 10 songs that makes 300 streams a month, each for 0.2¢. All in all 60¢. The remaining 6.40$ of the 70% of 10$ go to the most streamed artists you never heard..and these artist only get small cuts from theur labels.
You can also buy any merch of theirs and that will make them more than lifetime streaming of all the services combined.