r/technology • u/tekz • 18h ago

Business Why are so many musicians removing their music from Spotify?

https://indianexpress.com/article/explained/explained-culture/musicians-removing-music-spotify-royalties-ai-daniel-ek-10208768/
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u/ratherenjoysbass 16h ago

There's way more underground and unreleased music on YouTube

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u/imeeseeks 15h ago

This so much, people keep saying you could not find underground music before Spotify but YouTube has so much 

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u/_trouble_every_day_ 15h ago

Because they never heard of soulseek

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u/StorminNorman 4h ago

Or SoundCloud. Or blogs. Or forums/messageboards (public and/or private). Or trackers. I'm trying to remind myself that I've met people and that a lot of them aren't as deep into music as I am, but it's hard not to judge the comment you replied to cos wha...?

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u/vawlk 16m ago

i share my YTM playlists with amazon and spotify users and there are always a lot of songs not available on those other services. Amazon is worse than spotify.

I choose YTM because for about the same price, I get YT too.

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u/thermal_shock 4h ago

SoulSeek too

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u/ExdigguserPies 1h ago

I find the algorithms on YouTube music way way better Spotify, which just kept playing me the same few songs over and over