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Spotify to let artists post music without labels:
In a move with the power to shake up the music industry, Spotify said Thursday that it will allow select artists to upload songs directly without record labels or distributors.
Spotify, by far the biggest player in the fast-growing format of streaming, said that the feature for now is only in the test phase for select US-based independent artists who have secured their own copyrights.
But the feature, if eventually put to scale, could in the long run drastically change the business decisions for artists who would not need to go through a label or one of the batch of new companies, such as TuneCore, that provide uploading services for independent artists.
Spotify said artists would simply upload their songs to the platform, first seeing a preview of how it will look, with the Swedish company automatically sending royalties each month.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Phoenix666 on Friday September 21 2018, @02:04PM (2 children)
This is a welcome move. Making it easier for artists to create, find collaborators, and new audiences, will help creativity flourish.
I am of the opinion that MBAs, lawyers, accountants, and PR flacks are antithetical to human ingenuity, the soul, and all things wholesome and good in the universe, so cutting them out of the loop (if you want) at Spotify by not requiring labels ranks as a win. Thanks, Spotify!
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Friday September 21 2018, @02:08PM (1 child)
Didn't Douglas Adams put that group into a space ship and send them to some remote undesirable planet (called Earth) where they would no longer bother the other 2/3 of the population, who were later to join them in 2 more space ships, but never did once they realized that they had rid themselves of the useless 1/3 drag on society?
The lower I set my standards the more accomplishments I have.
(Score: 3, Funny) by Phoenix666 on Friday September 21 2018, @04:01PM
Yes, and it would have worked brilliantly if they hadn't been wiped out by a disease spread by unsanitized telephones.
Washington DC delenda est.