Should I pull music off Spotify? Use a decision tree to decide
Frustrated with Spotify’s royalties, algorithms, or ethics and wondering, ‘Should I pull music off Spotify?’ Before you make the leap, use this quick decision-tree to weigh the tradeoffs and find the path that fits your music career.
Should I pull music off Spotify?
by Chris Robley of Demo
More and more artists are stewing on it:
Crap royalties! Algorithmic nonsense! Ethical hellscapes! A.I. Armageddon!
Deerhoof left in protest. Artists like Dan Mangan say they can’t afford to leave, but are encouraging fans to sidestep Spotify. And many of my own friends are texting me saying “I want to leave Spotify. Am I crazy?”
So I made the decision-tree below!
Before you rage-quit the green machine, let’s talk consequences. Of course you should always do what’s best for you and your audience, so no shame from me either way.
But use this flowchart first, because you should understand the tradeoffs:
