• JimmyMcGill@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    You pay a certain amount a month to Spotify.

    A percentage of that goes straight to Spotify’s pockets and the rest goes to what you listen to.

    If you listen to music all day, and then have a white noise playlist at night, then half of that amount goes to just the one stream and the other half is split between all the others labels of the music you listen to. Without that white noise playlist the music labels would make twice as much money from you.

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        1 year ago

        Because big labels have power. As Spotify you want to keep them happy more than the little guys. Otherwise they can lobby against you.

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        Because their platform becomes more desirable for creators. They’ve had issues with this in the past, Taylor Swift pulled all her music from spotify at one point due to the lower than average royalties. That’s a situation they’d like to avoid in the future because it’ll cause people to drop their subscription.