Music Streaming - If You Don’t Know, Now You Know | The Daily Show

While practically the entirety of recorded music is on streaming services like Spotify, many musicians find it harder than ever to make money from it. Here’s a look at how artists both benefit from and are disadvantaged by the music streaming business. #DailyShow #TrevorNoah #IfYouDontKnowNowYouKnow

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[Halocene]

Thank you for talking about this. For reference, we have about 500k monthly listeners. 250+ cover songs and 40+ originals. We got ONE song on just ONE radio station and made more in a month that we made in 6 months on Spotify. 🤷‍♀️

[Goldfishlive]

Thanks for raising awareness on this topic Trevor. 🙌

[laalaastl]

It should be the other way around. Poor artists shouldn't subsidize rich artists. Rich artists should subsidize the poor.

[gigistoner]

Dang it. Now I can't get the Sleepify song out of my head.

[ili]

Slipped in dig at Amazon — “..someplace no one ever goes, like a break room in an Amazon warehouse.”. Well done

[EVILJAMARR]

As an artist on Spotify, yes I can confirm they don’t pay anything. It’s sad and frustrating.

[artvjon]

Honored to have been used as a source on this deep dive, couldn’t believe it when I heard my voice at 3:30 🤯

[OhWell]

Clearly some of you don’t listen. That 70% is going to the people who own the RIGHTS to the song, which is usually not the musician. People always have their eyes on celebrities, but the ones with all the money are the producers and label owners

[AutumnLeavey]

Being a musician now isn’t about selling music anymore, it’s about selling ads, at least live performances are coming back

[LuisMiguelCovarrubiasPous]

It's not so different, as a musician I can tell you, record companies and radio stations kept most of the money. Artists were entitled to up to 5% if they were lucky. They told us "if you want to make money, you do it from your gigs". Records are for exposure.

[WhattEvery]

Digitize your CDs, LPs, Tapes, and stream them yourself on your phone. I do. I stopped paying music streaming companies long time ago (only subscribed for less than a year). It's not dumb to hold on to your music collection, and digitize it yourself. It's freedom! 💃

[CoordinatedCarry]

I have nothing against streaming music but I like owning my music.

[darrylcarnell]

That is catchy....I need a dollar, hey hey

[leemi]

Imagine if top tier artists start dropping labels and performing in subways airports and bus stations as a protest and keep all the money with a finger up to the label. The best Artists would clog up the transportation system so bad the government would beg labels and streaming services to pay the artists what they deserve just to get traffic moving again.

[Mr.RobotHead]

This isn't actually anything new. Artists never did make much money from royalties on album sales or radio plays, unless they actually owned the rights to their music. Most made money by touring almost non-stop.

[susanlynn]

That song is awesome.

I wonder if the artists could negotiate a contract where they get more money from streaming services than the label does.

[luvzfrance]

And this is why concerts are an arm and a leg to attend. Musicians have to make up their losses somehow.

[ambriaharris]

Prince was telling ya'l that everyone will become slaves to the music industry.

[terilw]

After listening to this rendition, he’s got my $1 (.29).

[PugetSoundPete]

From what I can tell, "I Need A Dollar" was released over 10 years ago but failed to chart in the USA. It would be a great idea if we can do it justice and make it popular NOW!