Traditionally, new editors are appointed to publications when the old one decides they’re leaving or the management think new energy or a different direction is needed. And having studied some sociology a very long...
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Whilst you’re at it, could you tell Spotify to pay more to artists? Adele requests Spotify remove shuffle as default button on albums – and Daniel Ek is too starstruck to ignore her!
Is there a way to get Daniel Ek, the CEO of Spotify, to take any notice of you? Well, unless you’re Sofia Levander – she’s his wife and most men can verify you ignore...
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No cash to pay artists properly, but lots of money for new defence tech companies – Daniel Ek’s investment of €100million into AI business raises all manner of ethical questions…
This blog firmly believes that Spotify hates the artists and labels signed up to its platform. Their incessant attempts to reduce the amount of royalties they pay out, plus ongoing legal battles to stop...
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Spotify wants to reduce its royalty payouts to songwriters – so just WHY does Daniel Ek’s website hate the people who made him a multi-billionaire?
I’ve come to the conclusion that Daniel Ek hates musicians. And by that, I include artists, singers, songwriters, that bloke you got in to play the guitar solo bit, publishers and the rest. I...
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R Kelly’s streams went up by 22% in the week after his conviction for sex trafficking, and his album sales rocketed by 517% – so it’s no wonder Daniel “Mr Burns” Ek refuses to take his songs off Spotify!
Money means everything to the people at the top of the music world – and quite a lot of those below the top. This is one thing that you must remember about the music...
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Is he still behind the sofa looking for more money to buy Arsenal? Daniel Ek hasn’t tweeted about Spotify in two months – and talk of him snapping up the football club has vanished too…
I haven’t written anything about Daniel “Mr Burns” Ek and his cash cow Spotify for a while now, have I? So I thought I’d put that right and have a good look to see...
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Isn’t £2.6billion enough money for you to live on, Daniel? Now Spotify is making clear it’s only interested in helping people out with money, questions are asked about what new artists should do…
Yesterday, I wrote about the Campaigns feature which Spotify are currently allowing a limited number of artists to test out – because they’re kind like that, obviously. This would basically put Spotify into a...
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What’s next, paying a fee for an algorithm to consider plugging your music? Spotify unveils its new Campaigns feature to a limited few – and what a surprise, artists absolutely hate it!
By all rights, Spotify should have been declared bankrupt and closed down years ago. If it operated in any other sector of the economy, it would have done. The company doesn’t like to talk...
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Make music all your life and earn a pittance through Spotify, or sign a $25million deal for 35 minutes work? With rules like that, artists should designate their tracks as podcasts!
Daniel Ek infamously said last summer that if artists and labels wanted to be paid more money by Spotify, they should make more music. He particularly took aim at artists who only release an...
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Underground dance music is growing once again, says Spotify – so will Daniel Ek use that as his latest excuse not to pay out more money?
Believe it or not, but Spotify publishes some extremely interesting articles occasionally. You might already know that a few weeks ago, International Music Summit published a report saying that dance music shrank by over...
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Spotify wasn’t created to make artists money, says former company bigwig – leaving out the bits about Daniel Ek’s £3billion net worth, of course…
Spotify is a weird company, even by modern standards. Their CEO, Daniel Ek is worth roughly £3.2billion, their average employee earns about £60,000 per year – yet the company hasn’t turned a profit once...
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Daniel Ek pleads poverty when saying he can’t increase artist royalties – yet opens a big chequebook to get exclusive podcasts (with the latest getting a whopping $60million!)
Here’s yet another reason I’ve pretty much stopped making music to concentrate on this blog. Making me music was costing me money. I couldn’t even break even or make a small profit. And when...
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Arsenal’s reject Daniel Ek’s offer to buy the football club – but all his statement at the weekend shows is his glaring lack of self-awareness and hypocrisy
Self-awareness was never a quality that Spotify CEO Daniel Ek had in any meaningful quantity. This is, remember, the man who told musicians who make no money on his service to make more music,...
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Here’s something you won’t see often on this blog – a defence of Spotify raising their prices!
I note that Spotify has finally decided to do something that nearly every other company on the planet does – and that is actually raise its prices by a little bit. Shocker! Last year,...
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But would he pay more than $0.032 per share? Amusement as Spotify’s billionaire CEO Daniel Ek says he’s interested in buying Arsenal FC
A question I find myself asking sometimes at Amateur At Play HQ is – just how much self-awareness does Daniel Ek, CEO and multi billionaire possess? Not too often, mind you. The answer would...
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Spotify and the REAL reason they don’t have label pages?
When you’re browsing on the likes of Traxsource, Beatport and whatever, you can browse by record label. So if you like the output of a particular label, it’s easier to keep an eye on...
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