MONEY TALKS
I have often railed about the miserly amount of money musicians are paid by streaming services, and have always encouraged readers to try to buy direct from those musicians from their own websites either as downloads or as physical media, or by using platforms such as Bandcamp*. My constant frustration is that so few users of streaming services realise how the money they pay for their subscription is distributed. First, let’s say that you’re paying $144 a year for your subscription. The sad truth is that only around $18 of that goes to musicians. Even sadder, most of that measly $18 doesn’t go to the musicians whose music you’re actually listening to, but to the musicians whose music the streaming services’ algorithms say are the most popular on the service. Apparently Deezer is…