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Ok so still yes taylor swift is indirectly or whatever getting some of your money


In the same way that your small time artist is getting some of Taylor swift fans money. In the end the artists still get paid the same under either system.


But they do not get payed the same. Let's say Spotify has two users that total 100 listens, 99 Taylor listens and one listen for the obscur artist.

If payed by total listens Taylor gets 99%.

Now if those 99 listens are from the one user and the other from the other user. Paying by listens ratio per user, Taylor will get 50%.


That only matters if as a whole Taylor swift listeners listen to Spotify for longer than obscure artist listeners. Which hasn’t been shown.

Over the entire population of Spotify listeners you are going to have high and low listen count users that average out.


No, it was shown this doesn't average out, there is a study linked upthread.


The obtuseness of your responses is incredible. Can you not even concede anything?




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