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I’ve just about had it.
When I started distributing my tracks there I barely got a few cents a month, but in a way it’s something? Then they changed the terms and made it so only tracks with 1k or more streams gets you paid. Kindq sucked, but I was keeping an eye on the streams, kinda looking forward to when I could announce I finally got paid for some of my songs! But before this would happen, they changed it again. Now, only artists with 1k or more monthly listeners get paid. That’s never gonna happen for me. I don’t have the time or energy to make the effort required to get such an audience. Jfc. They claim it’s to avoid people who spam upload trash to make money. But, it harms the smaller artists like me and many others. And if that isn’t enough, the Spotify CEO invests huge amounts of money into weapons. Money that should have gone to the artists, or to improve the service!
I’m testing the process of removing a service using my distributor, namely SoundCloud, with my least popular track. Hoping it goes well. I just can’t stand for the way Spotify runs their business anymore.
If anyone here listens to my works on Spotify, I’m sorry. You can download all my works for free on Bandcamp and import into your Spotify playlists
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The SongKeeper
I hate the way Spotify has down downhill. I've used it alongside YouTube from 2018 to 2022, when I completely replaced Spotify with SoundCloud, simply because it had more stuff (AND YOU CAN ACTUALLY SKIP TRACKS). But ofc, it had ads, so now I only use an iPod, CDs, YouTube (with adblockers), and a little bit of Apple Music (courtesy of my coworker/friend).
And why does the CEO invest in WEAPONS of all things, its so dumb, I can't think of a proper metaphor! But yeah, Spotify is a waste of time. If anyone asks you "plz put this on spotify," you tell them "No" with a straight face. Bullshit like this makes me stay from the platform as a whole nowadays.