My Plex Server doesn't host any "disinformation podcasts" and is primarily full of music I bought the physical media for and ripped myself, thus ensuring that the recording artist was paid more that $0.0001 per song.
Buy physical media, buy the tracks directly from the artists, or just pirate the shit and donate to their favorite charity or something. Using Spotify is just about as bad as piracy.
Tidal doesn't host podcasts and has great quality. Also, sell high quality digital tracks on your own site or through bandcamp, people will buy them.
"I cannot leave all those services because I really like all the money my music would have no outlet to music lovers at all"
Considering how little spotify pays out per play, it's not really about the money.
I mean, it is Neil Young. We're not talking some mumblecore rapper from Minnesota. He's going to put up some big numbers. All those 0.01$ add up.
Eh.
Stephen Stills is one of the other major members of Young's supergroup, Crosby Stills Nash & Young, and Stephen Stills currently is listed as having 286,696 monthly listeners on Spotify.
Gola Gianni is a random rapper that I have never heard of before searching the word "mumblecore" on Spotify just 5 minutes ago, and he has 328,039 monthly listeners listed on Spotify.
I think you're both severely overestimating how many people are actually listening to a lot of these "classic" artists and also severely underestimating how popular random flash-in-the-pan artists are on Spotify.
edit: I didn't specifically use Young's monthly listeners right now because I suspect the news-worthy nature of his absence and then eventual return likely has temporarily inflated his numbers with the additional attention on him
2nd edit: I kept being curious so I kept looking at numbers for other "big name" bands.... I find it almost unbelievable that there is still apparently over 22 million people listening to Aerosmith monthly. I don't hate Aerosmith, but I'm not sure I could even sit through a whole album of theirs, so that 22 mil is breaking my brain.
That’s embarrassing
Fucking coward.
It was dumb to leave in the first place. You can't expect to like or agree with every other person on a platform, that's ridiculous.
Standing up for your principles isn't ridiculous, and had more artists done the same Spotify might have gotten the message. It's not too dissimilar to when Pearl Jam pulled out of all Ticketmaster venues in the 90s over the price gouging of ticket prices. Had other artists had the nerve to do so as well maybe we wouldn't have the insane concert ticket pricing of today.
How anyone could equate Joe Rogan to a news channel is beyond me. It’s a podcast for god sakes. Just. Plain. Stupid. Entertainment.
So yeah, pretty stupid action to take his music off Spotify. That whole cancel culture thing is insane and needs to end already.
That whole cancel culture thing is insane and needs to end already.
Exactly! We need to get the word out that cancel culture is harmful! We need to make sure that corporations supporting cancel culture won't be getting our business! We need to make sure that people who cancel others aren't welcome in our society! We need t--oh wait....
It led me to think about Spotify's politics and ethics and ultimately leaving it as well as a paying customer.
Same!
you can't expect to agree with everyone, but maybe some particular examples are beyond the pale.
That's not the expectation. The expectation is for a platform to choose not to host willingly ignorant content that other creators feel is damaging to their artform or the society they live in.
A democracy means people are free to be stupid, but it necessitates that people strive to be well informed. So Spotify is free to host whatever it wants, and Neil is free to demand better of them.
My Plex Server doesn't host any "disinformation podcasts" and is primarily full of music I bought the physical media for and ripped myself, thus ensuring that the recording artist was paid more that $0.0001 per song.
Buy physical media, buy the tracks directly from the artists, or just pirate the shit and donate to their favorite charity or something. Using Spotify is just about as bad as piracy.
Tidal doesn't host podcasts and has great quality. Also, sell high quality digital tracks on your own site or through bandcamp, people will buy them.
"I cannot leave all those services because
I really like all the moneymy music would have no outlet to music lovers at all"Considering how little spotify pays out per play, it's not really about the money.
I mean, it is Neil Young. We're not talking some mumblecore rapper from Minnesota. He's going to put up some big numbers. All those 0.01$ add up.
Eh.
Stephen Stills is one of the other major members of Young's supergroup, Crosby Stills Nash & Young, and Stephen Stills currently is listed as having 286,696 monthly listeners on Spotify.
Gola Gianni is a random rapper that I have never heard of before searching the word "mumblecore" on Spotify just 5 minutes ago, and he has 328,039 monthly listeners listed on Spotify.
I think you're both severely overestimating how many people are actually listening to a lot of these "classic" artists and also severely underestimating how popular random flash-in-the-pan artists are on Spotify.
edit: I didn't specifically use Young's monthly listeners right now because I suspect the news-worthy nature of his absence and then eventual return likely has temporarily inflated his numbers with the additional attention on him
2nd edit: I kept being curious so I kept looking at numbers for other "big name" bands.... I find it almost unbelievable that there is still apparently over 22 million people listening to Aerosmith monthly. I don't hate Aerosmith, but I'm not sure I could even sit through a whole album of theirs, so that 22 mil is breaking my brain.
That’s embarrassing
Fucking coward.
It was dumb to leave in the first place. You can't expect to like or agree with every other person on a platform, that's ridiculous.
Standing up for your principles isn't ridiculous, and had more artists done the same Spotify might have gotten the message. It's not too dissimilar to when Pearl Jam pulled out of all Ticketmaster venues in the 90s over the price gouging of ticket prices. Had other artists had the nerve to do so as well maybe we wouldn't have the insane concert ticket pricing of today.
How anyone could equate Joe Rogan to a news channel is beyond me. It’s a podcast for god sakes. Just. Plain. Stupid. Entertainment. So yeah, pretty stupid action to take his music off Spotify. That whole cancel culture thing is insane and needs to end already.
Exactly! We need to get the word out that cancel culture is harmful! We need to make sure that corporations supporting cancel culture won't be getting our business! We need to make sure that people who cancel others aren't welcome in our society! We need t--oh wait....
It led me to think about Spotify's politics and ethics and ultimately leaving it as well as a paying customer.
Same!
you can't expect to agree with everyone, but maybe some particular examples are beyond the pale.
That's not the expectation. The expectation is for a platform to choose not to host willingly ignorant content that other creators feel is damaging to their artform or the society they live in.
A democracy means people are free to be stupid, but it necessitates that people strive to be well informed. So Spotify is free to host whatever it wants, and Neil is free to demand better of them.