but everything the company does is actively hostile towards musicians like me and it really sucks to see it paraded around with free marketing.
Look at this shit!
A new threshold of minimum annual streams that a track must meet before it starts to generate royalties. The threshold, according to MBW, will de-monetize tracks that had previously received 0.5% of Spotifyโs royalty pool.
Scenario: A musician has paid a distributor to put their music on Spotify. People (subscribed or ad-based) are listening to it - but Spotify has deemed it's not listened to enough for their threshold and therefore will not pay out for streams.
Full stop, Spotify is profiting off that music without paying the artist.
'but it's so easy to listen to any music I want at the push of a button' really fucking screwed us all.

