To: Daniel Ek, C.E.O. of spotify
Regularize Streaming Deals pro music artists
I want Spotify to reveal to the music artists how much money they are really making through streaming their music products that labels and independent artists upload onto these platforms in order to be sold and also what is their deal with the music publishers who forward them the artists' music.
Why is this important?
It has never been clear since the dawn of the digital downloads era and we, the artists, often earn a very little income from selling a good amount of our music works which cost us a lot of time, love and money.
It is important because the music industry is in crisis because of greedy companies like these (Deezer and others). Whilst I am a full time working musician, working hard and struggling to survive, these people and their employees which little have to do with music, make 20 times our profit just by addressing the products WE create, somewhere.
ITunes for instance has a much fairer share of the profits with the artists who sell on it.
I am a music producer, band leader of a successful Funk band, having sold 1715 copies of my first album on spotify and having earned 5.4€ from it sounds rather offensive.
This is not the way the music business should go as they are killing the arts and the art of recording albums. I shall make my money back from the works I sell, not funding my music through borrowed money.
We demand a fairer share of these streamed music deals, because in the past they've promised that they would give us more when they'd have more subscribers.
Spotify accounts for 20 million active users and still pays artists around 0.002 pence per stream. This has to come to an end!
How it will be delivered
Social media, Email
