did you have the actual concern? i read the article and didn’t see any actual privacy issues besides:

the company’s algorithm-driven model that relies heavily on user data collection

do they really think i care that spotify knows what i listen to and when i listen to it in order to give me recommendations?

it’s one of the rare cases on the internetweb where im more than happy to give them as much data as they want in exchange for giving me better recommendations for artists and songs that i might like and listen to

The graphic from Statista below shows that Tidal is one of the higher payouts for streaming

that chart isn’t accurate at all because that’s not how pay per stream works

it might be true that tidal has a high payout rate per stream, but if you notice on the right is how many listeners there are, tidal has n/a vs spotify’s 265 million, i believe its up to 276 million now

there’s straight up just more people streaming which dilutes the pay per stream because there’s more people streaming than ever, billions of streams every hour

spotify’s streaming rate is variable for each artist because it’s your number of monthly streams x your total share of all streams

the more streams you get, the bigger the share, the higher the payout, there are millions of artists getting plenty of streams and are very happy with what they’re getting

spotify also has different rates depending on where you are and what your plan is, so im on premium and live in australia so my payout per stream is near the top, someone on an ad supported plan in india is paying out a fraction of what i do, but maybe that ad supported indian user will get a good job soon and enjoys spotify but hates the ads so he gets premium, adding to the pool that gets paid out to artists and spotify is #1 by a long way

also funny that the company with unlimited money (apple) has such a low payout rate on that inaccurate chart, vs spotify which pays out 70% of its companies revenues to rights holders

Spotify pays out about 70% of its gross revenue to rightsholders. That’s a significant portion of their income. In accounting terms, their cost of goods sold is 70%. Tidal also pays out around 70% of its revenues to rightsholders

https://blog.discmakers.com/2025/06/why-does-spotify-pay-the-lowest-royaltie/#h-TOC_01

whatever works though