Drake has urged that musicians get “bonuses like athletes” after they attain streaming milestones on Spotify.
Yesterday (February 2), it was reported that Drake had surpassed 75billion streams on the platform, making him the primary artist in its historical past to realize such a milestone. Following the announcement, Drake re-shared a graphic detailing his feat – it contains the Spotify’s brand, however doesn’t seem on any of the platform’s official accounts.
“We must always get bonuses like athletes to encourage the long run artists to be constant and aggressive,” Drake wrote within the accompanying caption. “[S]o be at liberty to ship me a Lebron sized cheque. I’ve sufficient dinner plates.” Although seemingly flippant, Drake’s feedback on Spotify royalties have been echoed by different musicians previously.
In 2020, Neko Case, Nadine Shah, Jack Garratt and Zola Jesus have been among the many musicians to criticise Spotify CEO Daniel Ek after he stated it “wasn’t sufficient” for artists to “document music as soon as each three to 4 years”. In response, Case wrote: “so fucking primary. HE retains our royalties.” The next yr, Spotify was accused of paying as little as £0.002 for every stream on its service.
In 2018, Drake broke a number of Spotify information along with his album ‘Scorpion’, together with for probably the most streams of an album in a single day (132million). The next month, he turned the primary artist throughout a number of platforms to succeed in over 50billion streams. In 2021, the rapper surpassed his single-day Spotify milestone with ‘Licensed Lover Boy’, which accrued 153million streams inside 24 hours of its launch.
Drake’s newest collaborative album with 21 Savage, ‘Her Loss’, arrived final November. In a three-star overview, NME described the challenge – a observe as much as ‘Actually, Nevermind’ – as “a braggy, chauvinistic album that’s full of the sort of low cost misogyny that a lot of the world’s finest rappers ditched years in the past.”