music-streaming platforms
I love to stream music. I love artists that make music. I want them to be able to live off what they make.
Here are some of my favourite music-streaming platforms:
- SoundCloud: use an artist-centric payment model. In 2023 they turned profitable, which is something Spotify have not achieved. Edit, 2024-01-08: yesterday, it was announced by Sky News that SoundCloud appear to try to sell their platform. Hopefully, this will not lead to what Bandcamp are becoming.
- Resonate: sadly, Resonate came across a crisis early in 2023, and seem to be disbanding. Resonate is/was the first community-owned music-streaming service. Their payment model is artist-centered and user-centric.
- Bandcamp: even though Bandcamp have been sold a couple of times (in 2022 and 2023), they allow users to stream music (both via the web and via their app) and download the music, too. They take roughly 10-15% of what users pay, and the rest goes to the artist.
- Rokk: planning to launch in January 2024, they want to pay artists '2-3 times more' than other streaming services and allow the end user to pay 10% of their monthly pay by signing up for Rokk via a special artist link[1]. Support their Indiegogo crowdfunding campaign!
Stuart Dredge, ‘Metal Streaming Service Rokk Goes Crowdfunding for 2024 Launch’, Music Ally, 22 November 2023, https://musically.com/2023/11/22/metal-streaming-service-rokk-goes-crowdfunding-for-2024-launch/. ↩︎