If your are talking about Spotify, my understanding is that you are not directly contributing cents to each artist you listen to based on plays, but rather based on overall popularity pool. Your subscription money then mainly goes to Taylor Swift. You do increase the popularity of the artist, but if you for instance like some hard-to-digest music you listen to once in a while, that does not really do much.

[–] BrundleFly2077@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I’m going to look into this. You come bearing dark news if this is true. Thank you for typing this out.

[–] cyberwolfie@lemmy.ml 1 points 16 hours ago

The payment model is described in the book Chokepoint Capitalism by Rebecca Giblin and Corey Doctorow, which is where I have it from. Then the small caveat that I might be misremembering something or that I misunderstood something.