This content is not available due to your privacy preferences. Insider previously found that Spotify has paid artists as little as $0.0033 per stream, as is the case for Eve6. That means artists need about 326 streams to make $1. Spotify, which has 155 million paying subscribers, pays up to $0.005 per stream.

The Union of Musicians and Allied Workers, a group with more than 27,000 members of the music industry, have called on Spotify to increase its royalty payment to at least a penny per stream as part of the #justiceatSpotify campaign it rolled out last year. Young's boycott pushed back on the idea that artists 'absolutely have to be on Spotify' for exposure despite its meager payouts, Gorman said. 'Paying musicians a fraction of a penny and him $100 million? This shows the type of company they are and the company they keep.' The fight for a 'penny per stream' 'What I am talking about is respect,' the post said.

In an Instagram post on Tuesday, Arie, an R&B artist with over 1 million monthly Spotify listeners, explained her motivation behind leaving the streaming service, mentioning the 'language around race' that Rogan used in a recent podcast. But when concerts are canceled because of rising COVID-19 cases, even that income goes away. 'For them to turn around and give a huge amount of money to a podcaster that is spreading information that potentially might prolong this pandemic.'Ī representative for Spotify did not respond to a request for comment as of publishing.įor many musicians, touring is the sole revenue source left 'in the era of streaming,' he added. 'Our problem is that the Spotify platform was built on the work of musicians and artists,' Gorman said. While artists are paid less than a penny per stream, Rogan's Spotify contract was valued at $100 million. The central grievance is Spotify's 'streamshare' business model that often pays about $0.0038 per stream, which independent artists have protested against for years. 'But I think what a lot of musicians and artists in our position are trying to do is use that as a way to open the conversation more into labor practices and usage.' 'The focus initially starts on issues to do with Rogan,' Thomas Gorman of Belly, the alt-rock band that was the first to replace its profile photo and banner image with bright green 'Delete Spotify' graphics, told Insider.

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