"Meanwhile, Spotify stopped paying out for songs by actual humans that get less than 1,000 plays, even though those songs still generate money for the company. This might not sound too crazy until you realize that that accounts for 2/3 of the content on the streaming service. That's a lot of money—that's now getting paid out to executives and, it seems, AI scammers."
https://boingboing.net/2024/09/09/actual-human-indicted-for-making-millions-off-of-ai-music.html
So Spotify still collects for those songs but the artist doesn't get any of it??
@tgraph52 I will say that Amazon streaming payouts are higher than most (among the least tiny might be a better way to put it).
But no, I don't trust Bezos any further than I could punt him.
With the exception of Tidal, these companies are born of tech people, not music people.
Ted Goia talked about how the publishing big shots are spending more buying up old catalogs than on promoting new artists and new music.
These are not the creatives we are looking for.
@t_heislen
I saw a Beato video about AI songs and some were impressive in their 'realness'. It's easy to see how the big streamers would love that shit. Word prompts instead of writers, musicians, mixers, producers...
I subscribe to Amazon music only and I'm sure they're doing the same... Why not?? Profit over.. anything.