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Musicians push back on dwindling payments from streaming services
Nearly every song ever recorded is available for about $12 a month, or free if you don’t mind the ads. But while the streaming giant Spotify has conquered the music industry, many of the artists responsible for the music on the platform say they are getting a raw deal. Geoff Bennett reports for our arts and culture series, CANVAS.
He's also a member of the UMAW, United Musicians and Allied Workers, a group of thousands of artists organizing to change working conditions in the music industry. In 2014, Taylor Swift briefly withdrew her entire catalog from the platform, saying in a Wall Street Journal op-ed: "Valuable things should be paid for. Pelly's book also unpacks the other ways Spotify has shifted music culture, like through its influential editorial playlists and personally tailored algorithms that can make or break a song.
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