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EARLY ACCESS: Musicians Don't Work Hard Enough?
🕑 Added 2020-08-14 16:00:08 +0000 UTCVIDEO LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jq9ISAi4oi0
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On to this week's video! Here's the description:
Spotify's Daniel Ek has said that "some artists that used to do well in the past may not do well in this future landscape, where you can’t record music once every three to four years and think that’s going to be enough", suggesting that if they want to "do well", they're going to have to make more music. But isn't that convenient for Spotify to say, given that they benefit more than anyone else when an artist releases more music?
Fun fact: this is my 9th video about a song, musician or the music industry in 5 months. It's actually the most I've discussed music in my entire career on YouTube! So, if you'd like, feel free to yell at the goobers that go "remember when your channel was about music!?"
Oh, and I've teased this a little on Social Media, but I'll just flat out tell you: my final video of the month will be a Musical Autopsy of "WAP". I kinda thought Baby Benny reading the lyrics on his show would ruin it for me, but I've come up with a different angle on the song that I think is far more interesting than "Eww! The lyrics are icky!" And I've got a fun Patreon-exclusive for you in a couple weeks discussing what my old pal Kreayshawn's been up to!
Comments
Adam Buckley
Yeah, well it wouldn't, right? I mean they brag "we've got millions of artists on Spotify", great, so what you're saying is there's no focus or promotion. Everyone and their brother can post their music on Spotify and if it gets a play, you'll send 'em a fraction of a penny, if it gets a thousand plays you'll send them maybe a dollar or whatever. Spotify is awful for smaller artists, they're better off playing up the "poor, small artist" angle and trying to get people to pay $10 or whatever to buy an album off them on Bandcamp, they'll make more money off 10 people buying that album than they would on Spotify in like 6 months in some cases.
Pete Spicer
What the CEO doesn’t like to say is that while the top tier artists might be alright, smaller artists really not so much. I know a band for example that is on Spotify, turns out a new album every year, sometimes even an album and an EP, plus a variety of other merch, even down to streaming “live concerts” funded on IndieGoGo due to Covid-19 just to keep going, and because they’re not mainstream, the amount off Spotify isn’t exactly stellar. It’s been a source of a fair few comments because it’s not even really doing much to “get exposure” for them either.
So I'm friends with a few people who create music, mostly digitally. One of them is a relatively big producer and has done work for movies, produced kpop albums, done a lot of cool shit. She's been in the game for YEARS. She's made more off of Spotify stock options in the past 3 months than she EVER has on Spotify. It's incredibly disheartening, and kills creativity faster than almost anything. I get that a lot of people don't know what goes into music production, but doing it mostly yourself is a lot of work, and artists need to be compensated for their work.
Gary Leigh
Well, that was depressing.
Pim
Goddamn tech is depressing.
Michał Michalski
about the bandcamp message that I can't reply to there (as I mentioned before in the comments here on Patreon). I would buy it if I weren't piss poor this month. Due to my boss's holidays the promised fat bonus that we were supposed to get last month was moved to the next month and I kinda sorta depended on it to stay afloat this month
