{"id":5446,"date":"2016-01-29T10:22:04","date_gmt":"2016-01-29T08:22:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hanshafner.de\/blog\/?p=5446"},"modified":"2016-01-29T10:22:23","modified_gmt":"2016-01-29T08:22:23","slug":"sadness-squared-and-then-some-outrageousspotifys-investment-striptease-is-an-ugly-necessity-but-an-insult-to-artists-music-business-worldwide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hanshafner.de\/blog\/2016\/01\/29\/sadness-squared-and-then-some-outrageousspotifys-investment-striptease-is-an-ugly-necessity-but-an-insult-to-artists-music-business-worldwide\/","title":{"rendered":"Sadness. Squared. And then some. #outrageous &#8211; Spotify&#8217;s investment striptease is an ugly necessity &#8211; but an insult to artists &#8211; Music Business Worldwide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, Daniel Ek is a smart guy, getting very rich and I know there is a culture out there commending this.<\/p>\n<p>I find it sad that it&#8217;s don on the back of the people who helped shaped almost everyones personalities in their formative years.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>And yet, we\u2019re talking about a day this year when new investors in Spotify will earn more than $100m, pretty much guaranteed, for doing nothing more than answering Daniel Ek\u2019s call.<br \/>\nWe\u2019re also talking about a day where the major labels, who\u2019ve taken somewhere between 15% and 20% in Spotify, get a ginormous one-hit windfall\u00a0that looks almost impossible to attribute or audit to individual artists.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/spotifys-investment-striptease-is-an-ugly-necessity\/\">Spotify&#8217;s investment striptease is an ugly necessity &#8211; but an insult to artists &#8211; Music Business Worldwide<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, Daniel Ek is a smart guy, getting very rich and I know there is a culture out there commending this. I find it sad that it&#8217;s don on the back of the people who helped shaped almost everyones personalities in their formative years. And yet, we\u2019re talking about a day this year when new [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[174],"tags":[25,176],"class_list":["post-5446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lifestream","tag-internet","tag-music-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hanshafner.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hanshafner.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hanshafner.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hanshafner.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hanshafner.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5446"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.hanshafner.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5446\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5448,"href":"https:\/\/www.hanshafner.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5446\/revisions\/5448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hanshafner.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hanshafner.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hanshafner.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}