Spotify does not pay artists well at all Spotify doesn't pay the artists. Spotify pays distributors and record companies. If an artist signed a bad contract with a label, or has unrecouped advances, or they have to split the money with other people in the band, they're not going to get paid much by their label. That's not Spotify's fault. Every streaming service is different. Pandora has numerous payment tiers based on things like radio play, ad-supported, or premium on-demand. Spotify has ad, premium, and family tiers. Spotify is in scores of countries, and that affects the pool of money, too, along with exchange rates. If recording artists don't know about the differences and details of how the industry operates in the US and around the world, and they don't look at a royalty statement every month, then they're going to believe the clickbait "music news" sites with their screaming headlines designed to rile people up.
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