This graphic seems to put Spotify in a “less shit” category than the other big players based on national origin or something.
From a quality and fairness perspective Spotify is just as bad. A large list of credible musicians and content creators have detailed the poor compensation, shift towards fake artists and AI filler tracks, and other moves Spotify has made that harm the artists and provide a worse listener experience.
If you want to fairly compensate artists, you’d be better off pirating 100% of your streams using alternate frontends for YT music, then making a list of your top 10-20 artists and buying an album or T-shirt from each of their official websites. They will make a lot better margin on that and its better for their career than any amount of streams you can give as one individual. (Also go to shows when available locally)
I’ve been considering this and although I’m not one to pirate anything (my skills for this stayed in 1999) I’ve been buying CDs out of thrift stores and ripping them :)
Some of the categories for this infographic are arbitrary within the context of the music streaming market. Spotify is literally a more “incumbent” “monopoly” than the “big tech incumbents” if you only consider the segment of those companies’ operations related to music streaming. Spotify is probably the worst choice of all, both using the ethos provided by the infographic and by other metrics too. Tech companies with 150B capitalisation are big tech regardless of how much bigger others are.
Just a shot in the dark, but something tells me Spotify being an EU company made OP think they were better simply because they weren’t based in the US. Yea, US sucks, but don’t let that rage blind us to other monsters who might get off easy being from one of the “good” countries.
Especially now, 5 months later, Spotify is advertising ICE recruitment videos in Chicago. IMO Spotify is the worst of the bunch.
This graphic seems to put Spotify in a “less shit” category than the other big players based on national origin or something.
From a quality and fairness perspective Spotify is just as bad. A large list of credible musicians and content creators have detailed the poor compensation, shift towards fake artists and AI filler tracks, and other moves Spotify has made that harm the artists and provide a worse listener experience.
If you want to fairly compensate artists, you’d be better off pirating 100% of your streams using alternate frontends for YT music, then making a list of your top 10-20 artists and buying an album or T-shirt from each of their official websites. They will make a lot better margin on that and its better for their career than any amount of streams you can give as one individual. (Also go to shows when available locally)
I’ve been considering this and although I’m not one to pirate anything (my skills for this stayed in 1999) I’ve been buying CDs out of thrift stores and ripping them :)
Some of the categories for this infographic are arbitrary within the context of the music streaming market. Spotify is literally a more “incumbent” “monopoly” than the “big tech incumbents” if you only consider the segment of those companies’ operations related to music streaming. Spotify is probably the worst choice of all, both using the ethos provided by the infographic and by other metrics too. Tech companies with 150B capitalisation are big tech regardless of how much bigger others are.
Just a shot in the dark, but something tells me Spotify being an EU company made OP think they were better simply because they weren’t based in the US. Yea, US sucks, but don’t let that rage blind us to other monsters who might get off easy being from one of the “good” countries.
Especially now, 5 months later, Spotify is advertising ICE recruitment videos in Chicago. IMO Spotify is the worst of the bunch.
US = bad, EU = good seems like a very tokenistic approach to the movement. As though its founding principle is nationalism lol