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I've had enough of Spotify's anti-artist practices since being an early adopter, I pay for a premium family account and I'm ready and willing to jump to any service with a not-narrow range of music that treats artists better. I'd rather not just sail the seven seas cuz I find the management of it all annoying, but I'm real irritated with Spotify and ready to consider maybe even that if there's just nothing else.
Thanks very much for the well thought out (and sourced) response!
I occasionally watch videos by a YouTuber named Benn Jordan (just a coincidence with my own Lemmy username to be clear), and he gives what look like pretty damning arguments to me that the numbers Spotify is publishing are misleading and not telling the whole story, and that their treatment of artists over time is growing worse.
Here's one of the videos I think I remember being fairly compelling - https://youtu.be/gDfNRWsMRsU
I thought there was a more recent one but I'm not finding it. Anyway with that said, I've got no dog in this fight and I only watch some of that stuff recreationally, I lack a ton of info.