Streaming is not going away and despite the endlessly recycled story about vinyl being really popular, streaming is the number one way people listen to music.
Famously, Spotify has continued to shoot itself in the foot with its poor pay rates to bands and artists and only by default have grudgingly become the number one streamer. There have not been enough convincing rivals to knock them off their perch and no streamers that seem to have been run with the fans and musicians in mind but there is now hope of the horizon with many new models, including Qobuz. who offer far better royalty rates for bands and are also keen to listen to fans and what they really want froma. streaming service.
- The Paris based company pays a far better royalty rate than Spotify and also has a really wide catalogue of music – nearly everything we searched for was there.
- When we first heard about them, we liked the idea but thought that maybe there was a small selection of artists on their pages but its looked like just about everything is on there.
- It’s also run by genuine music heads who know their underground bands and are trying to make something work for the fans, bands and musicians and so far seem to have successes.
- They also have a far superior sound quality than their rivals.
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