I hesitate to post links to content on Facebook, but Darcy James Argue wrote an excellent post on his Facebook page regarding Spotify CEO, Daniel Ek's, recent claim that musicians may no longer be able to release music only "once every three to four years."
Excerpt below. Read the entire post here.
There’s been a lot of talk about Daniel Ek telling the artists whose creative work has made him a multi-billionaire that if we want to be paid a living wage, we just need to “work harder.” It’s infuriating, of course, but whenever this conversation comes up, people also tend to be extremely defeatist — yes, Spotify is horrible for artists, but it’s also the future, so what are you going to to do? Well, there are actually a lot of things you can do, including supporting the artists you care about directly by purchasing their music via Bandcamp and supporting the crowdfunding campaigns that allow them to actually make records. But even within the streaming world, there’s a model that is much more equitable than Spotify’s. It’s called a User-Centric Payment System, and essentially what it does is make sure the money that you pay for your monthly subscription fee actually goes to the artists you listen to.
By the way, if you are not familiar with the music of Darcy James Argue, get on it! Brooklyn Babylon is one of the most astounding records I have heard in the past 10 years.