Artists that refuse to allow their music on Spotify

If you're big enough, there's no way you should participate:

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Consider Pandora and Spotify, the streaming music services that are becoming ever more integrated into our daily listening habits. My BMI royalty check arrived recently, reporting songwriting earnings from the first quarter of 2012, and I was glad to see that our music is being listened to via these services. Galaxie 500's "Tugboat", for example, was played 7,800 times on Pandora that quarter, for which its three songwriters were paid a collective total of 21 cents, or seven cents each. Spotify pays better: For the 5,960 times "Tugboat" was played there, Galaxie 500's songwriters went collectively into triple digits: $1.05 (35 cents each).

To put this into perspective: Since we own our own recordings, by my calculation it would take songwriting royalties for roughly 312,000 plays on Pandora to earn us the profit of one-- one-- LP sale. (On Spotify, one LP is equivalent to 47,680 plays.)

Or to put it in historical perspective: The "Tugboat" 7" single, Galaxie 500's very first release, cost us $980.22 for 1,000 copies-- including shipping! (Naomi kept the receipts)-- or 98 cents each. I no longer remember what we sold them for, but obviously it was easy to turn at least a couple bucks' profit on each. Which means we earned more from every one of those 7"s we sold than from the song's recent 13,760 plays on Pandora and Spotify. Here's yet another way to look at it: Pressing 1,000 singles in 1988 gave us the earning potential of more than 13 million streams in 2012. (And people say the internet is a bonanza for young bands...)

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It's not that it's a fad, it's that these companies don't pay you crap. Why should musicians be expected to give away their work for free? OK, 35 cents.

It's not the artists, it's the labels wiki

Tool isn't.

I don't think they're on itunes either.

Beatles
Led Zeppelin
Red Hot Chili Peppers only recently added theirs
Steve Miller Band only has one or two legit albums
I just noticed Wings added theirs! But kinda

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Why should musicians be expected to give away their work for free? OK, 35 cents.

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because the market has changed

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35 cents.

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> Free from piracy

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because the market has changed

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This.


Either take money willingly or go frick off and I'll steal it like its 1999. Doesn't make a shite of a difference to me.