Spotify are apparently “experimenting” with the idea of raising their prices for their British customers. At the risk of upsetting someone at the company, I have to ask what drugs they’re experimenting with to...
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Breaking into the 0.1%, anyone?
Spotify is guilty of many things. It’s guilty of not paying proper royalties to artists and labels. It’s guilty of having enormously expensive HQs around the world. And now we can add another charge...
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Spotify – failing to make a profit since ever!
I see that Daniel “Mr Burns” Ek has told us Spotify is hemorrhaging money. Weirdly, no one is too bothered about this. Online companies often seem to think that they’re never going to fail....
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Cars? With £37, you’d be so lucky, Gary!
The news this week that Gary Numan recently received a royalty statement for £37 for over 1 million streams raised a few eyebrows. How did he receive so little money, everyone asks. I don’t...
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In which I pledge not to be nice to Spotify
On my Facebook page in the past, I used to write mostly derogatory things about Spotify and its founder, Daniel Ek. I used to frequently point out that Ek, with his bald head, looked...
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