There’s not many things that cause sleepless nights to those running big corporations – but facing a potentially even bigger adversary might just be one of them. Just ask Tim Cook at Apple –...
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Don’t give the money to your bank, leave it in OUR bank account instead! Spotify’s latest defence of its 1000 streams per year rule is possibly its most ridiculous yet…
As far as years go, Daniel Ek is probably hoping to see the back of this one sooner rather than later. It’s not exactly been a good 2023 for Spotify – they’ve had to...
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Does Spotify have ANY idea what it’s doing anymore? Fresh from announcing no pay for less than 1000 streams next year and 1500 job cuts, they’re now plugging three months of free Premium!
There’s simply no way that Ears To The House can be alone in wondering just what on earth is up with Spotify at the moment. Call us cynical if you must – some readily...
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Take it you don’t mind being called Scrooge, Daniel? Fresh from announcing they’re not paying for anything less than 1000 streams next year, Spotify say they’re giving 1500 workers the axe…
Back in 1843, the most well-known novel by Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol, was released in London. The book – telling the story of a rich miser called Ebenezer Scrooge who changes his mean,...
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How many of those streams will be paid for in the future? As Spotify Wrapped looks set to hit artists inboxes this Thursday, a question about the changes kicking in during 2024…
We’re almost at that time of the year when artists start receiving emails from Spotify telling them how they’ve done on the streaming site this year. Many will choose to parade the badges proudly...
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They’ve got you right over a barrel! Threaten Spotify with having to pay artists more money, and they’ll just leave your country – as Uruguay are about to find out…
History is littered with examples of people and institutions being corrupted by power. Quite simply, if you hand over all the power to someone, they’re probably going to be tempted to abuse it –...
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Is this just the start of a slippery slope? Spotify confirms that anyone getting less than 1000 streams for a track from next year won’t be getting paid for it…
Ever since Spotify was founded back in 2006, it has become the most curious of beasts. Despite becoming the website which, in many ways, saved the majors from a very bleak future as everything...
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Do they STILL have to plug music in this way? There’s a hard techno playlist on Spotify – and we still don’t know how the hell this cover photo got approved…
So how do you promote music in this day and age? No one seems to know the right answers to this question anymore – and Ears To The House certainly can’t profess any specific...
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Just pay everything to Lucian Grainge and be done with it! Spotify is changing its royalty model from next year to combat streaming fraud – but who will REALLY benefit from the move?
Everyone seems to agree that the streaming model doesn’t pay in the way that it should. Even the major labels admit that there are issues within the current system – despite them being by...
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Spotify should raise their prices, says Warner Records boss
It was Baz Luhrmann on his 1999 song “Everybody’s Free (To Wear Sunscreen)” who commented that you should “Accept certain inalienable truths; prices will rise, politicians will philander. You too will get old, and...
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The majors are worried about their streaming cash cow…
On this Thursday morning at Ears To The House HQ, we all feel like Dennis Nedry. You might remember him from the 1993 film Jurassic Park. In an exchange with Lewis Dodgson, he says...
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Spotify FINALLY addresses Joe Rogan controversy – what kept them?
Spotify boss Daniel Ek is a man who’s apparently got used to the good times. For many years now, Spotify’s share price has kept going up, the major labels have been happy with what...
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Reasons to cancel your Spotify subscription? This blog can cite just a few – and a stupid controversy over $100million shock jock Joe Rogan is not one of them…
This blog makes no pretence of objectivity. I have opinions and I use this blog to express them. I don’t run a news wire service – anyone who comes onto the blog and encounters...
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Not the start Daniel Ek wanted to his week! Fresh from major labels probe, indy label body Impala now wants UK’s anti-competition body to take a closer look at Spotify’s much maligned Discovery Mode…
This blog welcomes the prospect of Daniel Ek not having a particularly good start to the week. And it looks like he’s about to get that. A few months ago, a parliamentary committee in...
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Yet another reason (as if any were needed at this point!) that streaming doesn’t work – the price of a streaming subscription has only gone up 4 cents since Rhapsody came along in 2001…
More than once in the past on this blog, I’ve expressed the view that major record labels made a monumental mistake when the internet came along, and it’s one that everyone – except themselves...
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As Spotify Wrapped makes its annual appearance to get music makers feeling warm and fuzzy inside, a reminder the only person winning in this system is Daniel Ek…
Earlier this week, this blog published all about Traxsource’s 2021 In Review. I offered up a defence of the platform for carrying out this annual tradition. And one thing I forgot to include in...
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