![]() ![]() For the most part it’s not podcasters profiting off Spotify – it’s the labels and investors who capitalized it. The Joe Rogan Experience, if anything, is a weird case because it’s an example of Spotify using its industry heft in music to try to corner the podcast world, and in doing so, the company ends up paying a conspiratorially minded wingnut a dumbfounding amount of money. Let it be clear though, Joe Rogan is just one person getting very rich off Spotify’s hegemony in the music industry. And sure, unless you’re Lil Nas X and the people you hired were a crack team of session musicians and producers, Joe Rogan is more popular. What the Spotify corporation wants you to believe is that Joe Rogan deserves to make that much more money because his show is that much more popular than your band. But, if Joe Rogan gets some friends together and riffs in the studio for three hours, Spotify guarantees he’ll pull in almost $5 million per month. It would take thousands of listens to even pay for the pizza you order for the group after the session wraps. In a nutshell, Spotify’s economics work like this: if you were to get a group of musicians together to riff in a studio for three hours and then you distributed that music through Spotify, you’d get a third of a penny every time someone listens to it. ![]() Spotify actually puts all of us music fans in a position to undercut the money musicians should rightfully be earning in order to pad Joe Rogan’s salary. ![]() They can’t have both.”įellow musicians: what Neil Young understands, what he’s trying to tell us, is that it’s our music that’s being sold so that Joe Rogan can get paid comfortably to say the n-word over and over again, to spread hateful myths about trans athletes that justify the denial of trans life, to just ask some questions about if vaccines cause heart conditions and ivermectin cures COVID.Īnd fellow fans, what Neil wants you to understand is that Spotify doesn’t have to remain powerful forever just because it’s convenient to use. To quote the legend himself, “They can have Rogan or Young. In late January, Neil Young pulled his music from Spotify in protest of the platform’s star Joe Rogan broadcasting his ill-conceived skepticism of the COVID vaccine to his millions of listeners. ![]()
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