"Those royalties are going to the artists that listeners love, that they’re listening to, artists that we all love, those verified artists, those human, authentic artists.
"When we look at the sort of entirely AI-generated music that people worry about, music that’s industrially produced, less human input, we see [and] every other streaming service sees well under 1 per cent of consumption is going to those tracks.
"Listeners don’t want it … and we’re really seeing low consumption there.
“What we’re hearing from fans and what we’re seeing on our service is people want to listen to and are seeking out authentic human music.”
Glad I canceled Spotify and went back to trackers and CDs.
Every story I hear about them just makes it sound worse.
I set up a navidrome server. It’s been great to be more intentional about my listening habits, even though my excuse was previously that I didn’t have time to make playlists and whatnot. I’ve heard so many songs that I haven’t listened to since college, when I switched to YT Music.
I hope by “CDs” you mean CDs bought directly from the artists.