So how much do Spotify artists actually make? Artists earn on average less than one cent per play, between $0.006 and $0.0084, to be exact, according to Spotify Artists, a website that explains the service to artists. I hope they don’t underestimate themselves or undervalue their art. It’s my opinion that music should not be free, and my prediction is that individual artists and their labels will someday decide what an album’s price point is. Music is art, and art is important and rare. Swift also argued in her piece that free or virtually free songs are at odds with what music really means: Piracy, file sharing and streaming have shrunk the numbers of paid album sales drastically, and every artist has handled this blow differently. In my opinion, the value of an album is, and will continue to be, based on the amount of heart and soul an artist has bled into a body of work, and the financial value that artists (and their labels) place on their music when it goes out into the marketplace.
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