



The project currently has over 28,000 signatures. The Union has put forward a project to fight for justice for musicians. According to the Union of Musicians and Allied Workers (UMAW), “ The company behind the streaming platform continues to accrue value, yet music workers everywhere see little more than pennies in compensation for the work they make”. Currently, Spotify pays musicians between $0.003 and $0.005 per stream on average, with 70% of revenue going toward artists/rights holders and 30% to Spotify. His recently released collaborative album with 21 Savage, Her Loss, which was released on 4th November 2022 surpassed 1 billion streams in December of the same year.Īccording to the Financial Times, Universal Music Group together with other major streaming services is undergoing a new model that would pay musicians fairly. In 2021 alone, it is reported that he earned $52 million with 21.5 billion streams. Being the most-streamed musician makes him one of the most-paid musicians on the platform. I have enough dinner plates.”Īs the most-streamed musician of the 2010s and in the history of Spotify, Drake has some of the biggest songs on Spotify. These songs each have different titles, artists, writing credits, and cover art - but the audio is the same across the board, a 53-second recording of what sounds like the intro to a prestige television show, ripe with steady piano and stringed instruments, that could be designated as classical music.“ We should get bonuses like athletes to motivate the future artists to be consistent and competitive… So feel free to send me a Lebron-sized cheque. He decided to add each of these recommended tracks to a playlist, which now includes 49 "different" songs. except every time I looked, it was a different song name and artist entirely." Faze noted that "on a Spotify radio this week, 1 song annoyingly kept playing. Spotify user Adam Faze took to Twitter to try to find out. Over the past week and a half, mainstream names like Drake, The Weeknd, Beyonce, and Rihanna have all been involved, in some way or another.Īside from the technology's ability to, in theory, recreate any song across the history of recorded music, there is another unsettling situation unfolding: Songs, seemingly created by AI, are being uploaded to streaming services and recommended to listeners - but no one can figure out how they got there. Turns out, AI-generated songs are taking over conversation in the music industry. That latest earworm you cant get out of your head? It might have been written by a robot. Drake - Whats Next (Official Music Video) Drake 27.6M subscribers Subscribe 927K 46M views 1 year ago Official music video for Drake What’s Next off the ‘Scary Hours 2’ EP, available. Account icon An icon in the shape of a person's head and shoulders.
