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Originally posted by musicman101
Please inform me on how it's "snobbish" and "money hungry" for an artist to want fair compensation for their work? The freeloaders that use free Spotify are the greedy ones and the reason why sales are abysmal. The gains in steaming revenue are freaking negligible but people are so quick to say "STREAMING MAKES MORE THAN SALES!1!1!" Like at this point, yeah it does because sales are literally in the toilet. It still doesn't make up for the drastic decline in overall revenue in the past decade. I mean this is the music BUSINESS. If you were an artist, why would you want to put your product you worked hard on onto a platform that could negatively affect your sales? I just don't see how Spotify is gonna last if they don't get rid of their free tier.
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I agree with all of this, but what upset me is not necessarily WHAT she decided to do - it's the fact that SHE did it. If there is one artist that doesn't have problems with sales - it's Adele.
I realize that all the artists who didn't put their albums on Spotify were successful beforehand: Beyonce, Taylor & now Adele. I guess I should be happy for them because they've come to a state where they don't need Spotify for people to notice their work & their paying fanbase is big enough to let their album sell successfully. But there is also a sense of greed in pulling your music from streaming service and not allowing common fans to have a listen without paying.
