Have you looked into music labels yet? Or just generally into the music industry, have you tried to release your music and chatted with some larger label on what kind of deal they could offer? Music labels are the main culprit of pain in the music industry, for streaming companies, for artists, for performers.

Music labels now got into forcing their signed artists to market themselves their new productions, wanting them to go viral before they even authorise the artist to release new albums. That would be most of the job of a label: marketing, and now they try to force artists to do the deed for them, while still extracting their 50-80% cut of royalties (and only sharing with artists after they cover their costs of recording and marketing).

It's a very exploitative industry, like most passion industries are.

Three labels control some 50+% of all music catalogue in the world, they strong-arm deals with artists (taking their cuts before paying artists) and forcing royalties deal that are more advantageous to them than to artists. If you don't play by their rules they simply take their IP away.

If you really wish to see artists being better paid it's better to focus the hatred on this kind of behaviour, it's not like Spotify can dictate the terms when a few massive companies have this amount of leverage.

I never listen to the taylorswifts and other really big names. But when I used to pay for premium most of my monies went there anyway.

I wish so much that my subscription fee would have gone pro-rata to the actual artists who I streamed. Alas out of the lets say 10 bucks only cents were left for the artists who I really liked-listened.

I ended cancelling spotify with the joe rogan saga, I am not paying for fucktards destroying our society.