This is a $1 dollar increase from what I was paying. But soon subscribers will be $15/month, then $20/month. I wonder how much of deezer's income actually goes to the artists.

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[–] GnuLinuxDude@lemmy.ml 31 points 2 years ago (9 children)

I remember people giving Spotify shit for increasing their monthly price from 10 to 11. It was the first price hike in over a decade. That doesn’t seem devastating or bad or wrong.

Compare it to something like Disney plus and how drastically they increased the price since service introduction

[–] WeebLife@lemmy.world 18 points 2 years ago (8 children)

I'm OK with the increase in price if I knew that extra money was actually going to the artists. But how do we know?

[–] GissaMittJobb@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

That's easy to know, actually. Spotify pays 70% of revenue to rights holders, and keeps 30%. Hence an increase of $1 will mean $0.30 for Spotify, and $0.70 to rights holders.

https://labelgrid.com/blog/royalties/spotify-pay-per-stream/

[–] brisk@aussie.zone 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Rights holders ≠ artists

[–] GissaMittJobb@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

This is true, yes, but the same applies for all streaming services.

It's kind of funny how the labels have basically dodged any blame in the public eye, in favour of having Spotify be considered the enemy of artists in this case.

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