This 30/01 we're leaving Spotify, join the #boicotspotify #BoycottSpotify
Why? 1. Spotify owner investing in the military and the biz of genocide, 2. Spotify hardly pays anything to the artists (only to the famous ones), 3. Spotify uses AI generated music to avoid paying artists
On Sunday we join La Instrumental, to imagine musical futures that are more free and collective. For musical production and use that is + ethical, responsible, solidary https://www.lainstrumental.org/
The royalty system is broken. Spotify unilaterally changed royalty payment rules to artists.
"Musicians might notice that 87% of tracks now receive the same from Spotify as from Anna's Archive: zero"
"Since April 2024, no track with fewer than a thousand streams a year on Spotify can claim any royalties from the platform. According to music data researchers Luminate, that’s 175.5 million tracks unaccounted to by Spotify, out of a total 202 million."
https://dadadrummer.substack.com/p/anti-copyright-extremists
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