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Wish I had this back when I had 100,000 mailing list.

> “Spotify killed revenue flow for anyone outside of the publishers and big artists/ players. Spotify basically killed any money coming from the physical distribution”

To the contrary, physical distribution was only available to big artists/players. There was mostly no way for independent artists to get into the record stores.

Streaming (via distributors like DistroKid) made it possible for millions of independent artists to make money from their music.

Source: DistroKid founder here. Hi.

Last week my company launched an iOS app that gets music into Apple Music and Spotify.

Timing unintentional but neato that musicians can now record, distribute & promote all from the device.

(not mentioning name of app cuz promotion, also we're not the only app that does this)

Hope you find my Medium post thought provoking.

Incentives in the music industry are setup such that any company offering promotional services to artists (ad agency, PR firm, promoter, radio promo, marketing department, etc) can quietly go to fiverr.com, buy 100,000 bot streams for $20, then take credit for their client’s rise in popularity—-getting the artist to pay again.

Which, because of how streaming services pay, steals from artists who have real/organic streams.

Aw shucks.