The Spotify paradox: why hundreds of fans can beat millions of streams | The Fold

Joel Gouveia is a music supervisor, artist manager and booking agent, with a Substack. Earlier this year he wrote a series of posts, each more successful than the last, which drilled into the streaming music economy in a vivid and challenging way. He talked about bands with millions of streams that sold a dozen tickets, while others with comparatively tiny audiences could sell out tours. He looked some of the economic and cultural failings of music streaming and shone a bright light on them, basically – and those posts were the most popular pieces on the whole Substack network, showing just what a chord he struck. He joins Duncan Greive on The Fold from his office in Toronto to explain his thinking, and why he started speaking out. https://joelgouveia.substack.com/p/the-death-of-spotify-why-streaming WEBSITE: http://thespinoff.co.nz/podcasts FACEBOOK: http://facebook.com/thespinofftv INSTAGRAM: http://instagram.com/thespinofftv TIKTOK: https://www.tiktok.com/@thespinoffnz APPLE: https://podcasts.apple.com/nz/podcast/the-fold/id1490770845 SPOTIFY: https://open.spotify.com/show/6xsGY6MqNfhwzMc2uvTUpz?si=251db13827394005