Streaming Music is Ripping You Off

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An eye opener!

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If you subscribe to a subscription music service such as Spotify or Apple Music you probably pay $10 a month. And if you are like most people, you probably do so believing your money goes to the artists you listen to. Unfortunately, you are wrong.

The reality is only some of your money is paid to the artists you listen to. The rest of your money (and it's probably most of your money) goes somewhere else. That "somewhere else" is decided by a small group of subscribers who have gained control over your money thanks to a mathematical flaw in how artist royalties are calculated. This flaw cheats real artists with real fans, rewards fake artists with no fans, and perhaps worst of all communicates to most streaming music subscribers a simple, awful, message: Your choices don't count, and you don't matter.

Peer Tracks: Your choices  count, and you matter :) Full article here : https://medium.com/cuepoint/streaming-music-is-ripping-you-off-61dc501e7f94