I feel for musicians, but to say that Spotify does not make anything is BS.
I started listening to _more_ music on Spotify. This by itself does not necessarily pays more to the musicians that I used to listen to, compared to buying their CDs and tracks piecemeal. But I started to listen to two orders of magnitude more artists than before. I may not spend more on music, but my money are now spread over a longer tail.
What Spotify makes is a distribution and discovery product that - by itself - creates a huge value for me.
I started listening to _more_ music on Spotify. This by itself does not necessarily pays more to the musicians that I used to listen to, compared to buying their CDs and tracks piecemeal. But I started to listen to two orders of magnitude more artists than before. I may not spend more on music, but my money are now spread over a longer tail.
What Spotify makes is a distribution and discovery product that - by itself - creates a huge value for me.