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Spotify to axe 1,500 workers to save costs (www.bbc.com)
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[โ€“] effward@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

1000 unique listeners.

If you had 500 die hard fans who stream your music every waking minute, you get $0.

Now, I imagine they did this to prevent people from trying to game the system (create a song and have all your devices stream it all the time, or something), but it's still shitty that if you have legitimate "listens" you can get nothing.

[โ€“] raptir@lemdro.id 0 points 11 months ago

It makes it so that I know some of my listens are just going to line Spotify's coffers. I have a number of bands I listen to who are under even 500 monthly listeners. Even if they're only getting a couple cents, I know they're at least getting something from my listens on Tidal.