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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

My dumbass didn't think "damn Spotify doesn't pay artists"

Instead I immediately thought "damn more people are paying for their onlyfans than listening to their music"

[–] [email protected] 164 points 5 days ago (4 children)

Damn, spotify truly is a scourge to artists.

[–] [email protected] 116 points 5 days ago (3 children)

The entire music industry is built to grift money from musicians and Spotify is a second layer of musician grifting industry built on the first.

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[–] [email protected] 47 points 4 days ago (3 children)

The article contradicts the heck out of itself.

Says billboard estimates she earns roughly $4k a day from Spotify streams. Then they speculate she makes roughly 8k a month from OnlyFans.

That would be like $120k a month from Spotify and $8k a month from OnlyFans.

That is FAR from more money from OnlyFans. Even if those numbers are hugely off I don't see how the discrepancy would be THAT large.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 4 days ago (1 children)

That also happens to be exactly the kind of math error AI is notorious for making. I bet the article was written by AI and likely not even proofread by a human.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 days ago

But 8 > 4??? /s

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago

The article didn't contradict itself since it did not make the claim that she made more money from Only Fans, the celebrity did. They just posted the estimated revenue from both services which doesn't match up with what she said. The only conclusions we can come up with is either their estimation is completely off or she was exaggerating her example.

[–] [email protected] 121 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (5 children)

Some years ago, an artist who was not a mega-star but was on all the major music services published an article detailing how well each one paid. I'm now kicking myself for not bookmarking it. I clearly remember Spotify being among the worst, if not the worst.

[–] [email protected] 97 points 5 days ago

The musician I saw last week mentioned that he'll get more money if you buy a CD from him now than if you stream his catalog on spotify for the rest of your life.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 5 days ago

Snoop Dogg said he got 45k for a billion streams.

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[–] [email protected] 46 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Good for her. If I thought there was a market for my disgusting claws I'd sell feet pics too.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Be the change you want to see in this world.

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I wonder how much her record label makes from her music on Spotify...

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Industry average is 2/3 goes to the label 1/3 goes to the artist.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Hmm, so we may have a culprit in the case of the missing money.

And although I like Lily, she's not really done a lot of music recently, and was never really that big outside the UK.

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[–] [email protected] 60 points 5 days ago (8 children)

I'm a girl, in a healthy BMI and with nice hair, pretty and freckled face, but my feet are super crappy. Like, crusty, toes bend at weird angles, hard skin in random places. Even my own husband is like "plz no, stop" if they get too near to him.

I'm now wondering if there's a market on the other end of the scale...

[–] [email protected] 39 points 5 days ago (1 children)

There is. There’s a fetish for everything. Certainly when it involves your feet, I’d ask your husband if he’d be ok with some internet strangers paying you every month to see your feet, the worst is he says no, and on the other hand if he says yes you have a second source of easy income

[–] [email protected] 19 points 5 days ago

He'd probably have empathy pains for any future subscribers.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 5 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

It is my firm belief that, given a proper pitch, ANYTHING can be sold at a profit.

Also, there's rule 34: If a thing exists, it's someones fetish.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 5 days ago (3 children)

If it exists there is porn of it... Not sure where you got that other version from

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 5 days ago (3 children)

I used to know a dude that would have gotten hard at your written description here. No bullshit. Dude was obsessed with feet, and what he called "real feet" were his particular favorite. Feet that had seen some life, had been used was one of the few things he would talk about. Literally obsessive about feet.

I guarantee he is not the only one. The only question is if there's enough like that to make any useful money out of a feet only business.

There's something about foot fetishists that's extra obsessive compared to any other fetishists I've run across over the years.

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[–] [email protected] 65 points 5 days ago (6 children)

Holy shit. I have feet. Does anyone want pictures of a guy's feet? They're big and weirdly shaped.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 5 days ago (2 children)

I'm positive there is an audience for men's feet, but if you aren't 5 stars on wikifeet, you'll probably have to market yourself. Study the foot fetish community to find out what the dude foot fan needs more of. Etc.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Is there any way I can do this without finding out any more about this fetish?

[–] [email protected] 17 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Hmmm...the problem is, even if you just post pictures at random, you're going to find out unwanted info based on what pics bring in money. Sounds like you'd need a manager!

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 days ago

5 stars on wikifeet

Something about this part of your post made me giggle.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 5 days ago (3 children)

I wear a men's 14. Basically the DD's of feet. My wife says I'm not allowed to show them off for free so get our your wallets folks.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 4 days ago

Spotify is a fucking racket

[–] [email protected] 33 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Something I've noticed in British media as of late is that OnlyFans makes some serious money - enough so that a creator can essentially use local journalism as an outlet for promoting their page.

I doubt some of the figures, but if you were to dig into them you'd probably see that number after the media have basically told people "look! Lily Allen has OnlyFans!"

Alongside that, funny enough, OnlyFans is probably one of the UK's biggest tech success stories. They make a lot of money, have only a few employees, and are basically leaders in their field. That's probably another weighing towards this being a promo piece.

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[–] [email protected] 40 points 5 days ago (4 children)

Am I missing something? Does it not say she makes an estimated $4000 per DAY from Spotify and $8000 per MONTH from onlyfans?

[–] [email protected] 49 points 5 days ago (4 children)

https://www.billboard.com/music/music-news/lily-allen-feet-pictures-make-more-money-spotify-streams-1235811354/

Allen’s daily stream count on Spotify as of Oct. 17 was about 851,623. Assuming that number is correct, the Music Streaming Royalty Calculator estimates Spotify would’ve paid a total of $4,077 a day, with $3,239 going to sound recording for the copyright owner; $336 of mechanical royalties going to the publisher, who pays the songwriter; and $503 in performance royalties going to performance rights organizations (ASCAP, BMI, etc.).

Which of these numbers goes to her? I'm just confused, I think.

[–] [email protected] 49 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Everybody likes to hate Spotify but if they pay out 4000 dollars a day and the artist gets nothing, that doesn't sound like Spotify is the main problem.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 5 days ago

That's pretty well known. They cut shitty deals with the record labels so they can have a large library. The record companies are making massive bank on Spotify, unlike pretty much every other party involved, including Spotify.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

There's a definite industry problem, but that doesn't excuse Spotify.

Apple Music pays artists 50-100% more than Spotify do per play, and Tidal pay triple to quadruple. Even Amazon pay artists more than Spotify; only YouTube is worse.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 5 days ago (1 children)

An unknown and probably pitiful fraction of $336, by the looks of it.

$336 of mechanical royalties going to the publisher, who pays the songwriter

[–] [email protected] 19 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

Ok I did a little searching. She might get some of the $336 to the publisher/songwriter, but only if she is credited as a writer. Not every song is written by the artist. There doesn't seem to be anything in that breakdown that goes to the artist specifically. The bulk of the money is going to the copyright owner, who is often the record company, and seems to be who owns her songs. It seems like whatever she gets paid would be up to whatever contract she signed with them.

This pdf file explains that a typical major label artist might make 18% of the $4077 per day.

https://www.manatt.com/Manatt/media/Media/PDF/US-Streaming-Royalties-Explained.pdf

If she makes $266 a day from onlyfans, she has to be making around 8% of the $3,239 the record company is getting daily for it to be less than onlyfans.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 5 days ago

The article is missing the content from the quoted article for the 4,000 a day. It pays out 4,000 a day to the studios and publishers, whatever actually % of that she gets is probably less than 10.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 days ago (1 children)

feet just dont do it for me

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 days ago (1 children)

It has to have a person attached.

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 5 days ago (8 children)

What's fun is that some people who read this article are probably into feet (good for them!) so it's like an ad and now she'll probably make even more on onlyfans. While still making ludicrously little from spotify.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 days ago

I'm not a huge Lily Allen fan, but her first album was incredible.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfvOEn3GAo0&list=PLI6kLIhBBwmT_XV_24qMWetSE3tX_gvIF

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (3 children)

Perhaps this just means people value her feet more than music? I'm not into feet, but I really didn't like her music, so maybe this is reasonable.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 4 days ago

Not really. It just means onlyfans pays more than Spotify... which seems obvious to me??? A direct subscription to an artist vs only a few cents per play... yeah, no brainer, the artist is going to make less money in the latter deal.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 5 days ago (14 children)

Seeing how this thread is full of hate for Spotify by seeming large number of people who are fans of streaming music/podcast services, I'll pos this question here:

What are the better alternatives for someone seeking to get their favored audios, in terms of library selection, able to form custom playlists and how much if any support to the artist/content creator actually gets to them and what is pocketed by the app?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 5 days ago

I don't think there's all-in-one best option

library size

Deezer

how much is paid to the creator

Bandcamp

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