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Doesn't look much
> How much Röhr, who has worked as a conductor on pop stars’ tours and on TV, has earned from his agreement with Spotify is not known. However, his private company reportedly made 32.7mn kronor (£2.4m) in 2022, when it had a record year. Doesn't look much
It’s a life changing amount of money for something like 90% of humanity.
> How much Röhr, who has worked as a conductor on pop stars’ tours and on TV, has earned from his agreement with Spotify is not known. However, his private company reportedly made 32.7mn kronor (£2.4m) in 2022, when it had a record year. Doesn't look much
> Doesn't look much It’s a life changing amount of money for something like 90% of humanity.
$2.4mil puts you in the top 2% of Americans.
> How much Röhr, who has worked as a conductor on pop stars’ tours and on TV, has earned from his agreement with Spotify is not known. However, his private company reportedly made 32.7mn kronor (£2.4m) in 2022, when it had a record year. Doesn't look much
> Doesn't look much It’s a life changing amount of money for something like 90% of humanity.
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The only thing that's sketchy is Spotify directing everyone to the same content, making stuff that appeals to the audience isn't against the rules.
Agree. Actually I’m feed quite feed up with Spotify, and this week decided to get a proper HiRes audio and buy music from places like BandCamp or the CD edition and ripping it. I miss curating my collection and playlists. It seems that the convenience of having almost all music available in a couple of clicks is making the listening experience less valuable.
I’m now using a service called Roon to stream my local library, any other track I don’t own gets streamed from Tidal via Roon.
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He seems to be essentially releasing content PURELY to make the algorithms light up, though, not out of any sort of "honest" artistic intention. Like all those "$bandname for kids" releases that are just midis played through xylophone, marimba patches, or occasionally strings. Credited to legitimate sounding "artists" like the "Vitamin Quartet".
> He seems to be essentially releasing content PURELY to make the algorithms light up That’s art.
And I'm not saying he's not.
But do we call it art if it's fraud?
Isn't a lot of HN readers against AI generated spam and SEO spun content?
I don't call those art, and I'm not sure yet what to call thos composer.
Yeah, nothing fishy here at all. Why pay tribute to other artists if you can make a deal with one and promote him on all the playlist to pocket back your money. Just give him the machinery and funding to create all of it and voila!
How is Spotify “pocketing back the money”?
> A “secret” composer who has released music under hundreds of different names has been identified as Sweden’s most-listened-to artist on Spotify – pulling in more plays than Britney Spears or Abba. Wow.. this is sketchy as hell.
The only thing that's sketchy is Spotify directing everyone to the same content, making stuff that appeals to the audience isn't against the rules.
I mean: your gripe is basically Spotify's entire raison d'etre. On the other hand, there is absolutely no reason to hide your true identity to such an extent, except to be able to act as your own competition.
That is, I think this person knows very well that by using different artist names, he will get Spotify revenue the listeners think is going to different artists.
Yeah, nothing fishy here at all. Why pay tribute to other artists if you can make a deal with one and promote him on all the playlist to pocket back your money. Just give him the machinery and funding to create all of it and voila!
How is Spotify “pocketing back the money”?