I'm always surprised that Deezer is still around. Who on earth is still using it?

Also, fuck iHeartRadio. Not for their royalties, but for buying up tons of local stations and stripping them of anything that made them even remotely worth listening to. Fuckers bought the only station in town that played any amounts of metal and turned it into yet another top 10s station

This graph is weird. Soundcloud looks like it pays more according to it, but it needs to swap positions with Spotify.

What's up with soundlcouds position in that chart?

Add it to the fact that, quoting from the aa's blogpost,

≥70% of songs are ones almost no one ever listens to (stream count < 1000).

The vast majority of the artists are to be "stiffed" of like $3 or less per track during the nearest eternity iff every single one of their listeners is to download the archive and only listen to locally saved copies. Which, given spotify tries to do it themselves by recommending (and, likely, creating) ai slop, tells us more about their predatory practices than of anything else