Over the last few weeks, I’ve started the process of removing my music from Spotify.
It was not a difficult decision, the evidence continues to mount that it’s a company that doesn’t care much about music, musicians or the fragile ecosystem around us. They are an agressive player in the attention economy, without regard to the devaluation of the very thing they distribute: music.
We put-up with their awful financial structure (which stacks the deck against small, independent artists), their generous support of right-wing media, their embrace of AI junk… and now the head of the company starts pouring his outrageous profits from these affronts into developing war toys.
I hope that the platform will be impoverished by a collective action to leave, so whether you are an artist or a subscriber, I encourage you to do the same.
Thanks to Envision Records for their support.