Maybe check out https://mirlo.space/ , https://subvert.fm/ and https://resonate.coop/ ? They’re all cooperatives of various sorts, treading a path towards actual economic and social sustainability in music.
Everybody go to Deezer!
I just canceled my subscription because the app and website sucks so much.
Deezer is part owned by Access Industries which has donated to the Republican party and invests in Israeli companies
Not sure that corporate ownership has the meaning you imply here. Let’s say I launch a streaming service in Europe and it attracts consumers. This brings investors that help scale up my company. Among these investors, one ends up being a scumbag 10 years later. Should people boycott my company for that reason? With this reasoning, I don’t see any service that shouldn’t be boycotted. Target, Meta, Amazon, Delta, Pfizer, Visa all donated money for Trump’s inauguration, among dozens other big US companies. Plus, Deezer is now public. Finally, as a European compamy, it has to respect consumers privacy.
Keep in mins that in the same way (now trades in USA stock markets, but was based in Sweden and now Luxembourg) Spotify is European, too.
I don’t think any of the companies you’ve mentioned are ethical investments.
Sure, si why target Deezer which is by several metrics way more ethical? Is Spotify better?
As a musician with a small catalog on the streaming sites, everyone other than Spotify seems to pay at least something. I am still on Apple Music despite my issues with the UI because they actually pay a good amount for streams. I got more from a handful of streams in TikTok than from thousands of streams on Spotify. The truth is that unless your big, your basically putting music on Spotify for free.
Paltry payouts?
~Joe Rogan
