r/Music • u/imatmydesknow Concertgoer • 6d ago

music Slipknot enters Spotify's 1 Billion streams club with "Duality"

https://lambgoat.com/news/49390/slipknot-enters-spotifys-1-billion-streams-club-with-duality/
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u/Philboyd_Studge 6d ago

Nice, bet they can't wait for their royalty check of $37.68

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u/Luppien 6d ago

People are big on Spotify hate recently, but even with their lower rates this rakes in a clean 3 to 5 million dollars. It's not all terrible, but it would be more at another service.

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u/SouthTippBass 6d ago

Great, now split that between the 9 members. Who else gets a slice?

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u/Moontoya 6d ago

Cough, 9 current members 

Royalties can still go to former or deceased members 

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u/SouthTippBass 6d ago

I stopped paying attention to the group after Iowa so I'd be out of the loop.

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u/Moontoya 6d ago

I think the guitarists and singer are the ogs remaining 

Bassist, samples guy,  two replacement drummers (Elroy is incredible and has revitalised their lives shows), clown retired (maybe unretired), 

I've probably missed some

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u/Everestkid 6d ago

Only original original member left is Shawn Crahan (aka Clown). Even Corey Taylor isn't an original member, the original vocalist was Anders Colsefni, who was on the demo album put out prior to the self-titled debut.

Self-titled album had a different guitarist (forget his name), who was replaced with Jim Root - though Root played on Purity, which has been removed from most versions of the album due to a copyright infringement lawsuit. Mick Thompson, the other guitarist, has been in the band since at least the self-titled days.

As for the rest of the Iowa lineup (which was also the Vol 3 and All Hope is Gone lineup, thus the lineup that recorded Duality):

  • Sid Wilson (turntablist) is still in the band, was also on the self-titled.
  • Joey Jordison (drummer) and Paul Gray (bassist) are dead, as you mentioned.
  • Chris Fehn (non-Clown percussion, occasional backing vocals) was fired in 2019 because of a royalties lawsuit. He was replaced with another guy, forget his name.
  • Craig Jones (keyboards and samples) quit somewhat recently, as you mentioned.

So that's four guys still in the band from the first album, five from Iowa.

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u/Richie217 5d ago

I think Shawn and Corey are the only members with any actual power, rest of the band are sub contractors.

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u/Moontoya 6d ago

Thank you, i appreciate the clarification 

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u/SouthTippBass 6d ago

The group was definitely finished for me when Joey left. He was the band along with the singer.

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u/cross_mod 6d ago

Multiply that by about 2 for all of the other streamers and physical sales and they all get about 1 million. Plus publishing and mechanical royalty splits . Maybe about 1.5-2 million a piece.

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u/SouthTippBass 6d ago

Ok. Not too bad so.

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u/TimTebowMLB 5d ago

It’s one song…..

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u/pzanardi 6d ago

Are you happy with Spotify?

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u/BackgroundPresence60 6d ago

Yes. I own the albums and listen to them on Spotify. They get 0 revenue when I listen from my albums and some minor amount from when I do so on Spotify. 

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u/pzanardi 6d ago

Happy you're happy! I'm upset with them mostly because of their investment in Helsing. The artists I enjoy sell their albums directly or through their labels nowadays, so I like to do that. I know a lot of acts prefer you buy their stuff on Bandcamp or directly too.

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u/BackgroundPresence60 6d ago

I use Spotify as my method of listening even to things I already own. It might be greedy in some practices but it introduced me to more bands and albums than anything else ever did. And I certainly support those bands as best I can outside of Spotify. 

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u/pzanardi 5d ago

I’m always hopeful for record stores to come back, thats a great way to discover music too! I’m lucky to be in a bigger city and have lots of music around. I used to surf mIRC radio chats for songs. I would recommend checking bandcamp! Same ease as Spotify, but money doesnt go to wars or deadly weaponry, yet!

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u/masterspeler 4d ago

Spotify hasn't invested in Helsing, so if that's your main concern feel free to stop being upset with them.

Daniel Ek, CEO and founder of Spotify, owns the investment Prima Materia company that has invested in Helsing. That's not the same thing as Spotify investing in them.

And I really don't understand the hate for them, I think it's good to support European defense companies considering what Russia is doing and seeing that the US explicitly has asked Europe to take a more active roll in our own defense.

Helsing was set up to build AI to serve our democracies and play a part in protecting them from harm. We share Helsing’s conviction that liberal democratic values are worth defending and that artificial intelligence will be an essential capability to keep us safe. The software gathers data from multiple sensors on vehicles and systems to help humans process complex and diverse information more reliably and act quickly.

Oh no, how terrible! Must change music streaming service immediately!

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u/pzanardi 4d ago

I’m sorry you’re upset I can make my own choices mate! Cheers.

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u/masterspeler 4d ago

You're the one who said you were upset, not me. I merely corrected your misunderstanding of the situation. Saying that Spotify has invested in Helsing is demonstrably false, but I really don't care if you make your choices on misunderstandings or lies. I'm sure they're all great choices backed by lots of research.

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u/pzanardi 4d ago

I appreciate you taking the time for it, have a good one.

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u/Rage_Like_Nic_Cage 6d ago

$3-$5 million for a billion fucking streams is nonsense though. 5 million people buying the song as a single on itunes would get them in the ballpark of the same about of money, but every purchase would have to listen to the song 200 times for it to get to a billion.

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u/Venesss 5d ago

then pay more. get the spotify family plan and only use it yourself. Or buy the songs or albums yourself

people bitch about Spotify not paying artists but the vast majority of their revenue goes right back to artists. And then the funny thing is they bitch about price increases