He either doesn’t realise how bad he sounds or doesn’t care.” You are an obnoxious greedy little shit Daniel Ek Įmbrace singer Danny McNamara said: “The contempt with which this man and all like him hold artists is beyond parody.
bassist and songwriter Mike Mills said “Music = product, and must be churned out regularly, says billionaire Daniel Ek.” He added, succinctly, “go fuck yourself.” Many musicians criticised Ek’s economic view of music for undermining the work that goes into creating it.ĭavid Crosby called Ek “an obnoxious greedy little shit,” while R.E.M. If Ek wanted to set his sights a little lower to, say, earn a year’s minimum wage in the UK, he would still need 4,955,973 streams, according to a recent study by Broadband Choices.īut, partially because Daniel Ek is not a musician, those who do release music on his platform have expressed frustration with his comments. Condensed into a single song, that would mean over a trillion more streams than the current most-streamed release on the platform, Ed Sheeran’s Shape Of You. With that in mind, if Ek had made his net worth via Spotify, he would have a total of almost 1.3 trillion streams on his music. Reporting by Soundcharts places the average amount paid per stream via Spotify at around $0.00318.
Clarifying his position further, he said: “I feel, really, that the ones that aren’t doing well in streaming are predominantly people who want to release music the way it used to be released.”ĭaniel Ek’s net worth has been reported, as of July 2020, to be $4.1 Billion.
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