How To Be A Responsible Music Fan In The Streaming Era [VIDEO]
Payments to artists for streaming music do not come close to equalling income from downloads, at least in the short term. To make matters worse, the top 10% tracks account for 99% of all streams on Spotify. That means that the vast majority of tracks on the service get less than 1% of total plays. So, in the age of streaming, what can a responsible fan do to support the music they love?
Damon Krukowski of the band Galaxie 500 has some suggestions starting with thinking about where your dollars are going, even on a streaming music service like Spotify.
Pitchfork put together this animated primer on How To Be A Responsible Music Fan In The Age Of Spotify.
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First of all, the payment of a paying subscriber should only be apportioned to the tracks and artists that the subscriber actually listens to!
I’m a Spotify subscriber, paying $10/month, and only listen to, say, Metallica, then all the pay-out should go to Metallica (and the respective label, publisher, etc.).