{"id":211840,"date":"2021-03-26T20:04:52","date_gmt":"2021-03-26T17:04:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/is-spotify-really-listening-to-artists-loud-amp-clear\/"},"modified":"2021-03-26T20:04:52","modified_gmt":"2021-03-26T17:04:52","slug":"is-spotify-really-listening-to-artists-loud-amp-clear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/is-spotify-really-listening-to-artists-loud-amp-clear\/","title":{"rendered":"#Is Spotify really listening to artists \u201cLoud &amp;amp; Clear?\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_84 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a27876cc4019\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a27876cc4019\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/is-spotify-really-listening-to-artists-loud-amp-clear\/#Damon_Krukowski_a_musician_and_organizer_with_the_United_Musicians_and_Associated_Workers_gave_us_his_response_to_Spotifys_new_initiative\" >Damon Krukowski, a musician and organizer with the United Musicians and Associated Workers, gave us his response to Spotify\u2019s new initiative.<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;<strong>#Is Spotify really listening to artists \u201cLoud &amp;amp; Clear?\u201d<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"deck\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Damon_Krukowski_a_musician_and_organizer_with_the_United_Musicians_and_Associated_Workers_gave_us_his_response_to_Spotifys_new_initiative\"><\/span>Damon Krukowski, a musician and organizer with the United Musicians and Associated Workers, gave us his response to Spotify\u2019s new initiative.<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"content_blocks\">\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-221011\" class=\"content_block breaker triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left image\">\n<div class=\"media_wrapper\">\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1440,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/GettyImages-941399442_l3vbel\/photo-by-spencer-platt-getty-images.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_220,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/GettyImages-941399442_l3vbel\/photo-by-spencer-platt-getty-images.jpg 220w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_300,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/GettyImages-941399442_l3vbel\/photo-by-spencer-platt-getty-images.jpg 300w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_400,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/GettyImages-941399442_l3vbel\/photo-by-spencer-platt-getty-images.jpg 400w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_600,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/GettyImages-941399442_l3vbel\/photo-by-spencer-platt-getty-images.jpg 600w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_750,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/GettyImages-941399442_l3vbel\/photo-by-spencer-platt-getty-images.jpg 750w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_840,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/GettyImages-941399442_l3vbel\/photo-by-spencer-platt-getty-images.jpg 840w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_960,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/GettyImages-941399442_l3vbel\/photo-by-spencer-platt-getty-images.jpg 960w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1260,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/GettyImages-941399442_l3vbel\/photo-by-spencer-platt-getty-images.jpg 1260w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1800,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/GettyImages-941399442_l3vbel\/photo-by-spencer-platt-getty-images.jpg 1800w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_2400,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/GettyImages-941399442_l3vbel\/photo-by-spencer-platt-getty-images.jpg 2400w,\" sizes=\"100vw\" alt=\"Is Spotify really listening to artists \u201cLoud &amp; Clear?\u201d\"><span class=\"img_caption\"><\/p>\n<p>    <span class=\"caption\"><br \/>\n      Photo by Spencer Platt\/Getty Images<br \/>\n    <\/span><\/p>\n<p>  <span class=\"credit\"><br \/>\n      \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>  <\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-221007\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<p>            Last week, Spotify launched <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/loudandclear.byspotify.com\/#dashboard\">\u201cLoud &amp; Clear,\u201d<\/a> a website marketed by the streaming platform as an attempt to pull back the curtain on how it compensates artists. In its mission statement, \u201cLoud &amp; Clear\u201d says it \u201caims to increase transparency by sharing new data on the global streaming economy and breaking down the royalty system, the players, and the process.\u201d <\/p>\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div>\n<p>            The site\u2019s launch comes as the controversy over streaming royalties continues to build. Artists like <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/musically.com\/2021\/03\/25\/beggars-group-gary-numan-streaming-payouts\/\">Gary Numan<\/a> and <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theringer.com\/tech\/2019\/1\/16\/18184314\/spotify-music-streaming-service-royalty-payout-model\">Zoe Keating<\/a> continue to speak out over low royalty payments from Spotify, and COVID-19\u2019s ravaging of the music industry has only heightened this sense of urgency. \u201cLoud &amp; Clear\u201d debuted months after the formation of the Union of Musicians and Allied Workers, a group created to advocate for human rights and dignity for workers in the music industry. \u201cWe believe that the only way to transform music,\u201d UMAW wrote in <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/B_xL3C2jfVo\/\">its introductory post<\/a>, \u201cis to collectively take resources and power from the few wealthy companies that dictate our industry, and work toward a more equitable music infrastructure.\u201d Since then, UMAW has taken their fight to Spotify\u2019s doorstep with <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unionofmusicians.org\/justice-at-spotify\">the Justice At Spotify campaign<\/a>, a day of protest actions at Spotify\u2019s global offices. <\/p>\n<p>            UMAW&#8217;s vision of a more equitable music industry is laid out in <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unionofmusicians.org\/justice-at-spotify\">its list of demands<\/a>. They include a penny per stream for rights holders, the adoption of a user-centric payment model, and increased transparency behind &#8220;closed door contracts.&#8221; \u201cLoud &amp; Clear\u201d does not directly address UMAW, and the Union issued <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/news\/spotify-launches-loud-and-clear-transparency-initiative\/\">a statement to Pitchfork<\/a> decrying how Spotify\u2019s site \u201chas failed to meet any of our demands.\u201d <\/p>\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div>\n<p>            To learn more about UMAW and its position on Spotify, The FADER spoke with Damon Krukowski, former drummer of Galaxie 500 and an organizer with UMAW. Throughout our conversation, which includes responses to specific points on \u201cLoud &amp; Clear,\u201d Krukowski gave a no-holds-barred reaction to Spotify\u2019s website, and urged musicians to demand much more from the company.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-221008\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<p><b>The FADER: What were your overall thoughts on Loud &amp; Clear when it was announced?<\/b><\/p>\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div>\n<p>            Damon Krukowski: So obviously, Spotify has heard [the UMAW\u2019s demands]. Now the problem is that there&#8217;s nothing on the website that any of us can find that we haven&#8217;t heard before. It is essentially restating all their justifications to their investors for why they&#8217;re such a great company for the music industry, without responding to anything that artists are saying. It is a lot of reshuffling of the same figures that we&#8217;ve seen before that don&#8217;t add up to enough for artists. And that&#8217;s our basic message. We don&#8217;t need to be told how we&#8217;re not being paid or why we&#8217;re not being paid. We just need to be paid, you know? <\/p>\n<p>            But at the same time, it&#8217;s just so obvious how they just don&#8217;t care what we say. There isn&#8217;t one shred of a compromise position or offer. A lot of what they say on the website is the same justification they always make: The music industry was being threatened by piracy, and they&#8217;ve come along and rejuvenated [it with] billions that flow into the industry. Okay. But the question is, where are those billions going? It&#8217;s all being directed at a very small portion of the music industry at the very, very top of it. The three major labels [and the] major label artists who are at the top of the playlists are benefiting hand over fist. <\/p>\n<p>            <b><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/audiomediainternational.com\/global-recorded-music-market-grew-by-7-4-in-2020-reveals-ifpi-report\/\">According to the most recently released IFPI report<\/a>, the global music market grew 7.4% in 2020, driven by streaming. Spotify points to figures like these as proof that streaming is saving the music industry from piracy.<\/b><\/p>\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div>\n<p>            I think it is akin to <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook<\/a> saying that they&#8217;ve saved journalism. It&#8217;s like, &#8220;Yeah, sure. There are more people reading journalistic articles on Facebook than there were subscribing to <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">news<\/a>papers, at physical newspapers&#8217; nadir.&#8221; But they haven&#8217;t saved journalism, they&#8217;re killing it. And Spotify&#8217;s the same thing. Yes, they have found a way to drain all the revenue that&#8217;s out there for music into one central place and make that grow through this new <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/technology\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"4\" title=\"Technology\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">technology<\/a>. But it&#8217;s at the sacrifice of this varied environment for the way that recorded music was shared before. <\/p>\n<p>            The pie chart that is so alarming is <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.riaa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/2020-Year-End-Music-Industry-Revenue-Report.pdf\">the one that the RIAA put out<\/a>, where you see streaming at 83% of the recorded music revenue, and 17% left for everything else. Now, let&#8217;s think about everything else for a moment: Satellite radio, commercial radio, terrestrial radio, licensing for sink use, film, TV, commercials, performance rights organizations, BMI, ASCAP for public performance, physical media, <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">download<\/a>s. <\/p>\n<p>            What&#8217;s wrong with this is it&#8217;s totally unhealthy. You can&#8217;t have a healthy marketplace when 83% of the revenue is in one place or one technology. And that&#8217;s the same thing with Facebook. It&#8217;s like, &#8220;Well, look, more people are reading these articles and trading them around.&#8221; It&#8217;s like, &#8220;Sure, but the environment is a monoculture of disinformation.&#8221; And that&#8217;s what we&#8217;re at risk of with this model. <\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-221009\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<p>            <b>Spotify claims that it pays 2\/3 of its revenue to rights holders, like labels and distributors. The Loud &amp; Clear website suggests that whatever amount of the Spotify royalties artists are receiving from the labels and distributors is a function of their record contract, which has nothing to do with Spotify.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>            Yeah, but this also has nothing to do with our demands. We are speaking as rights holders. When we say a penny a stream, we mean a penny a stream to rights holders. So how is it an answer to say, &#8220;We pay rights holders .0038 a stream?&#8221; Yeah, we know that already. That&#8217;s what we&#8217;re complaining about.  Here&#8217;s the bottom line: <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/prospect.org\/power\/islands-in-the-stream-spotify-youtube-music-monopoly\/\">Apple Music already pays double the rate that Spotify pays. Amazon pays triple<\/a>. So we&#8217;re not pulling things out of the air that cannot happen, but clearly, Spotify is not prepared to sacrifice any of their profits to increase their payments to artists. <\/p>\n<p>            My old band, Galaxie 500, in 2020 had 8 1\/2 million streams on Spotify. We received .0038 [per stream] for them. We&#8217;re our own label. There&#8217;s nobody taking a piece of that. Spotify can&#8217;t say, \u201cOh, it has something to do with our contract with our record company.\u201d No. We are the record company. And that&#8217;s true for many, many independent artists. <\/p>\n<p>            And even if it&#8217;s not, how is it an answer to say, &#8220;Well, we paid your record company the same pittance that you\u2019re complaining about?&#8221; Frankly, that&#8217;s an old music business trick, to talk down to artists, to throw figures around like we can&#8217;t understand them. And it doesn&#8217;t get to the heart of any of our complaints, which are well-researched and well-documented, and deserve real answers, not this kind of PR smoke-and-mirrors.<\/p>\n<p>            The real complaint that does exist in this conversation about the labels is about the three major labels that <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2018\/biz\/news\/spotify-at-days-close-what-are-sony-warner-and-universals-shares-worth-a-lot-1202743146\/\">cut a deal<\/a> with Spotify that created this entire system. Spotify couldn&#8217;t get into the US market without the cooperation of the three remaining major labels [so] they gave them ownership share in the company in exchange for the agreement that we&#8217;re all living with now, which is that the artist royalties are pitiful. But [the labels] didn&#8217;t care, they sold their own artists down the river because they got ownership. <\/p>\n<p>            <b>One of the UMAW\u2019s demands is for a user-centric model of royalty payment. On the Loud &amp; Clear site, Spotify says &#8220;We are willing to make the switch to a user-centric model if that&#8217;s what artists, songwriters, and rights holders want to do. However, Spotify cannot make this decision on its own. It requires broad industry alignment to implement this change.&#8221; What&#8217;s your response to that?<\/b> <\/p>\n<p>            They are partners with the labels. When they try and point fingers at the major labels, they&#8217;re pointing fingers across their own boardroom. So no one is stopping them and the majors from changing the deals that they&#8217;ve made. Also, nobody&#8217;s stopping them from revealing the deals they&#8217;ve made. The real transparency to me, as we&#8217;ve requested, have to do with opening up what those contracts entail. What are they really paying each other? <\/p>\n<p>            Now, all of that is somehow operating in this big, high powered money world that the stock exchange loves, that capital investors love. But artists are not benefiting. And that&#8217;s what we&#8217;re screaming about. And the reason we&#8217;re screaming is because they&#8217;re not listening and they&#8217;re not responding. We still have no conversation with them. No one from the company has contacted us. <\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-221010\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<p>            <b>On the day Loud &amp; Clear was announced Spotify founder and CEO Daniel Ek <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/eldsjal\/status\/1372533445310746625\">said<\/a> \u201cfans ultimately decide who thrives\u201d on the platform.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>            That angered a lot of people. That&#8217;s related to one of our main demands, which is for transparency. And when we say transparency, we mean about the terms and the money that&#8217;s being exchanged between the majors and with Spotify. But we also mean about how the algorithms are working and how the playlists are working. <\/p>\n<p>            The platform itself is directing you where it wants you to go and that&#8217;s the point of the playlists and that&#8217;s the point of the recommendation services and the algorithms that run those. There are human elements to those playlists and there are algorithmic ones. We do not know everything that goes into them, and we do not know the reality of how these decisions are made. <\/p>\n<p>            <b>Spotify <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/iExPc11FWUc\">claims<\/a> that it wants &#8220;More artists than ever to find success through streaming.&#8221; In your view, what would they have to do to accomplish that? Or do you think that they can under their current system? <\/b><\/p>\n<p>            I&#8217;d love it if they did it. Daniel Ek has <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/pro\/features\/spotify-million-artists-royalties-1038408\/\">said<\/a> that his goal and the company&#8217;s goal is to have a million artists make their living off the platform. And then they come out with this defense that says that so far, 13,400 are making $50,000 or more. Now first of all, that&#8217;s a lot less than a million. The second problem is what is this $50,000 generated? They&#8217;re talking gross. Now first of all, most artists are on record labels. At best, you&#8217;re splitting that 50\/50 with the label, so now you&#8217;re getting $25,000. Now the artist may be a solo artist who has no share with anybody else. But most likely not. I mean, music just doesn&#8217;t work that way. We have bands. We have groups. We have managers. We have a lot of people that it takes to make recorded music. Recorded music is actually a collective activity, so what do you get out of it? That&#8217;s what I can&#8217;t believe, is the gall that they put these figures out there that look like the figures we would put out. And they&#8217;re putting them out saying, &#8220;Look how great this is for the music industry.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>            What it really all boils down to for me is that Spotify is not a music company. This is how it&#8217;s different than dealing with the world of the major labels, et cetera, which was always difficult for artists. But what has really changed is now we&#8217;re trying to deal with a tech company that actually doesn&#8217;t speak our language, doesn&#8217;t want to speak our language and doesn&#8217;t even have representatives who work with us. <\/p>\n<p>            And what it gets to, which is the deeper truth about our relationship to tech is that Spotify doesn&#8217;t need music and that&#8217;s really the problem. You can see them already moving away from music just like Amazon moved away from books. And really, I think it&#8217;s the same with Spotify and music. We are building their platform, and we are building their user base and they&#8217;re not compensating us fairly for that.<\/p>\n<p>            <i>This interview has been edited and condensed for clarity.<\/i><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"author\">\n    <span><br \/>\n      By <span class=\"credit_name\">Jordan Darville<\/span><br \/>\n  <\/span><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script async defer src=\"https:\/\/platform.instagram.com\/en_US\/embeds.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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