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 SPOTIFY THE DUNGEON SLAVE.

The big news is legendary artists are leaving Spotify due to what we could say are a lot of reasons and years of build up, but the one that they are angered about is the mis-information in the Joe Rogan podcasts about Covid 19 AKA (Corona Virus.) Not only has Spotify annoyed a few big names in the music industry but they have got under the skin of the medical world, the people we depend on to keep us safe from the virus. I do not think Joe Rogan did this to cause anyone harm, so I have no issue with him about this, and he was man enough to apologise.

Open Letter - Danial EK Open Letter

(Part Of Spotify CEO'S Open Letter.)

A decade ago, we created Spotify to enable the work of creators around the world to be heard and enjoyed by listeners around the world. To our very core, we believe that listening is everything. Pick almost any issue and you will find people and opinions on either side of it. Personally, there are plenty of individuals and views on Spotify that I disagree with strongly. We know we have a critical role to play in supporting creator expression while balancing it with the safety of our users. In that role, it is important to me that we don’t take on the position of being content censor while also making sure that there are rules in place and consequences for those who violate them.

(Full post on the link above.)

Daniel EK wrote an open letter which in my personal opinion was a kick in the teeth to anyone involved in creating. He states how everything he does is for creators, sure he created a platform which helped beat the major problems of piracy in music, but then got greedy and put himself in a position where the big major labels could bully him, making him and his site their dungeon slave (TIGHTEN THOSE SHACKLES.)

Now what does not help his case is when a guy who does not want to pay out a fair price to creators starts boasting how he wants to buy Arsenal Football Club for a a reported 4.7 billion while countless artists are trying to make a living and spending huge amounts to make music sound great, so if Daneil Ek has made this much money then why can he not pay a fair price out to creators? 

I am not just saying Spotify, all streaming sites are the same, but Spotify makes the most I feel. We all know how Spotify likes to be the centre of attention, and I have never pushed Apple Music myself with my own music.

Then you have the utter favouritisms of the Spotify playlist support which does not help independent artists or unsigned ones, because Spotify are going on your followers, and the ones who use bots like a lot of big names and labels we know have streaming farms get The Willy Wonka Golden Tickets!

This is what you call a very un-even playing field.

Thankfully in the UK, the Government have said there is 12 months to look into how fair streaming is, and the major labels position in music, and I hope this echoes around the world to all Governments, because it is horrifically un-fair to the unsigned and indies, unless you are lucky enough to be one of the ones who goes to the office to work with Spotify.

Yes I respect the legacy of the major labels and some people in them, but the majority of them are an office full of party poppers at an ego festival and most are up their own ass from the people I have encountered  and if you are not in that boys club forget it, you are not welcome and they will look down at you.

This is a culture that has got so far out of control from say 10 years back, so an investigation into the practices of how fair streaming is compared to a solo entity within the major labels is long time coming, and it may put some people in their places who think they are the laws of music.

This is a whole other post to talk about what goes on in major labels from a very honest point of view well away from how the main - stream media have to write things, or it affects their advertising.

My final words are. Until Spotify stop being treated like a major labels dungeon slave and start thinking more about having a platform which can pay a decent price and really support unsigned artists and the older ones who have careers but are now second best to the labels, than we are all doomed.

I know this is not easy to work out a fair price with the stream as people use bots to steal money from Spotify, and how much is a stream really worth? I would rather the stream died and MP3s and Vinyl came back with the CD, because at least we all knew where we stood.

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