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.

Replacing all jobs won’t create true abundance because the resources required to create things are finite, namely land and space in general

We’ll have solved these problems though, space wise whether it be by reducing ones footprint down to practically nothing, with nanobots ensuring our bodies get fully taken care or through expansion to other planets

Resource wise we’ll simply be using fully renewable resources, we’re talking end game here, all jobs are being done by computers, there is nothing left for us to do but have fun or babies? I duno what we’d do if all jobs were fully completed and there was literally no work left

It’s also difficult to say how these problems will be solved without coming across like “it’s the future!”

Paintings reveal what people in 1900 thought the year 2000 would look like

https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/paintings-future-1900-2000-b1916391.html

if ai replaces all jobs then there is no need to have money since everything will be available in abundance

it is to me? guess what I’m about to do 👋

Blocking. Stuff. Out. Does. Not. Solve. The. Root. Problem.

Neither does being worried, anxious, depressed and crying while watching the news.

the age is in the image, he says he is 32 years old

Also, I might not be able to change stuff, but we can.

If you are crying, depressed and anxious from the news you are better off stepping away from it

This is not good for your mental health

get active instead of enabling fascism by inactivity

Bruh just literally vote at the next election, you live in the west not Russia unless you do live in Russia in which case well then you probably have a genuine reason to be crying lol

🤣

Another one:

gods the 90’s was strong

is that better?

And which problems would be solved by that? The housing crisis? The rise of fascism? The neocolonial exploitation of the global south? The Climate crisis?

You’re a 32 year old guy, you can’t stop these things, they are outside of your control.

Learn to let go instead of being anxious and depressed about things you cannot change

or don’t and keep crying and being sad?

yep… get off social media

How many times do we have to watch venture capitalists enshittify services before people learn.

In reality maybe they consider the fediverse worse than the “enshittified” venture capitalist backed service?

the prune juice you’re drinking tastes like cherry?

+1 informative

(To be fair, my local supermarket has scales and cameras to prevent most shenanigans… so I have to sneakily pocket small but expensive items while still walking around the store!)

Ah you’re the cunts who increase the cost for the rest of us, thanks

the discount for me is time saved not waiting in line to have someone else do a job I can do myself

Do you also want the restaurant to pull out a seat and push you in? do you want the petrol station to pump your own petrol for you? do you want to go to the bank so they can transfer money for you? I cannot for the life of me understand why some people are so hung up on self checkouts

Klarna is like a payment layer on top of a payment processor, different things, even they recommend stripe:

https://docs.klarna.com/