Is that actually feasible though? Could Spotify 5x the payout? That seems unlikely and even if they could that would nowhere near solve the problem anyway. It would still be meagre income for small artists. What do you suggest?
The current set up enables discovery. Small artists are able to gain global audiences that may support the artist directly, an artist they would almost certainly never have found without Spotify. This is happening all the time.
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Is that actually feasible though? Could Spotify 5x the payout? That seems unlikely and even if they could that would nowhere near solve the problem anyway. It would still be meagre income for small artists. What do you suggest?
The current set up enables discovery. Small artists are able to gain global audiences that may support the artist directly, an artist they would almost certainly never have found without Spotify. This is happening all the time.