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Ghost artists on Spotify

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556 points greenie_beans | 2 comments | 19 Dec 24 14:12 UTC | HN request time: 0.617s | source
1. kbrisso ◴[21 Dec 24 02:02 UTC] No.42476925[source]▶
I don't like Spotify's business model. This is why I use Deezer as my streaming service. Deezer pays the artist more and has Hi-Fi streams. Streaming is killing the music industry and quality because it pays crappy royalties.
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2. Kankuro ◴[21 Dec 24 14:02 UTC] No.42479722[source]▶
I also subscribed to Deezer, and the fact that it is still not profitable makes me wonder why. Is it because they pay more artists? Or because the labels get a larger share of the revenues? Or because they have a smaller market share (so larger fixed costs in percentage of their revenues)? Or they are less efficient than Spotify?

According to this article musicians get $0.022 from Qobuz per stream when Deezer pays $0.0064 ($0.00437 for Spotify).

https://www.lalal.ai/blog/how-much-streaming-services-pay-ar...