Untangling Platforms, Payouts and Music Trends with David Turner of Penny Fractions
Music Tectonics
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The Dispersed Pipeline of Music
It's hard to imagine what like a unified action would be that would have the same impact as the rider strike. Even even if all independent musicians decided to pull their music from Spotify for a day or whatever however that would work you'd still have tons of stuff up there with major labels and other major labels. i feel like it's sometimes the binary that makes it a lot easier to like yell at Spotify even though part of me is kind of like yeah like they're at fault here but major labels are still paid out better on a first-stream basis than indies or self-relacing artists. Part of me wants to go like okay if there are hundreds of millions of dollars that were
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