Hear, hear!!

I'm a musician myself, and so are a plurality of my friends.

So I simply never use Spotify, ever ever ever, because the compensation is shit.

If I buy someone's album on Bandcamp for $10, they get $8.50 at a minimum, or the full $10 on Bandcamp Friday. I'd have to play each track on that album 300 times in order to equal that payoff on Spotify.

And you missed another tremendous unfairness in how Spotify works, which is that you get paid per play, no matter how many or few plays that person makes in a given day.

What that means is that the vast majority of Spotify plays come from people who simply leave it on all day in randomize.

I met a guy who made a good living from Spotify, simply because he had put up literally thousands of tracks labelled "Smooth jazz". They were all fairly professional - and each track was completely forgettable.

In most other music markets, you can actually make a living with a comparatively small number of True Fans who buy everything you produce. I am such a True Fan for several artists. (John Luddington, particularly, is an astonishingly good singer-songwriter, a genre I barely listen to these days, but his songs stick in my memory very interestingly where hundreds other come and go.)

Buy the album directly, folks!

Some dedicated musician will directly get enough money to buy something actually useful, not a third of a cent six months from now.