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Comment by Eridrus

So I wanted to try put this into perspective since "a penny per stream" is intentionally meant to sound insignificant.

This seems like it would roughly double Spotify's costs: https://www.republicworld.com/technology-news/apps/how-much-...

And Spotify is already paying out 75% of it's revenue to royalty holders: https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/spotify-pr...

So unless you believe that Spotify is bad at business and there's an extra ~75% of revenue Spotify could pull out of a hat, this is basically impossible to satisfy without cratering the total revenue by doubling prices, which is probably not in artist's interests.

parent Eridrus 5 years ago

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