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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Will all the songs be ten seconds long? TikTok’s owners launch their own streaming service in China – oh to be a fly on the wall at Daniel Ek’s office…
I have to say that my knowledge of Swedish swear words is incredibly limited. Normally, this would not bother me in the least – but I can think of one situation where it might...
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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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Are Universal, Warner and Sony facing an anti-competition probe? If a UK parliament’s streaming enquiry has its way, major label bosses won’t be sleeping easy!
The Digital, Culture, Media, and Sport Committee have filed their report on streaming, and my goodness – initial impressions are that it doesn’t hold back. 50/50 pay for artists and labels, equitable renumeration, issues...
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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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How could you make Daniel Ek look good? By having YouTube take the top spot in the streaming world – shame they pay even less to artists than Spotify!
Things are happening in the world of music streaming. You should be very excited if you’re a multi-millionaire who already makes lots of money out of streaming – but if you’re an artist and...
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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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But is this actually going to make you any money, Daniel? Spotify unveil the Car Thing, their latest attempt to get into profit
Spotify have tried a lot of things over the years to try and change their abysmal record when it comes to making any money out of their website. They’ve tried paying out insultingly low...
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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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