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Spotify will end service in Uruguay due to bill requiring fair pay for artists (mixmag.net)

submitted 10 months ago by L4s@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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Spotify will end service in Uruguay due to bill requiring fair pay for artists:: The Uruguayan Parliament approved an amendment to the country's copyright law last month

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[–] Corgana@startrek.website 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

IIRC Tidal gives 10% of the subscription to the most listened-to artist. Not a lot exactly, but still miles ahead of Spotify who gives functionally zero.

[–] raptir@lemdro.id 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

That was part of their "direct artist payouts" that they discontinued earlier this year.

[–] Corgana@startrek.website 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Ah thanks for clarifying. What a bummer!

[–] raptir@lemdro.id 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, it's really unfortunate. Their argument was that it took too many resources to implement for the little it was giving to the artists. They replaced it with "Tidal Rising" but it really doesn't fix the problem. When I look up the artists featured on RISING and I see that they have 1 million+ Spotify listeners while the average band I listen to is closer to 50k with some under 100 listeners I feel like they missed the mark.

I love Tidal + Plex as a solution for supplementing my music library so I'm not going to cancel it, but I try to buy an album per month from a band I listen to in addition to my subscription to tidal.

[–] Corgana@startrek.website 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I like the idea of buying an album/month in lieu of a subscription service. Putting it that way makes be realize I'd have ~50 albums or so by now!

[–] raptir@lemdro.id 2 points 9 months ago

Yeah I listen to too much music to have it replace Tidal completely, but it's more that the $10 is my "convenience fee" for easily accessing albums and my album purchases are for actually supporting the artists.