In an interview with the music site Music Ally, the Spotify founder claimed that artists are generally not dissatisfied with the compensation they receive when their songs are played on the streaming service.
- It's a wrong narrative, combined with the fact that some artists who were successful in the past may not be so in the landscape of the future, you can no longer record music every three or four years and think it will be enough, he said then.
"He can go to hell"One of those who is now fighting back against Ek is Dee Snider, singer in the rock band Twisted Sister. He believes that Spotify's approach means that artists lose large revenues.
The amount of artists who are "rich enough" to cope with that loss is around 0.0001%. Daniel Ek's solution is that we should write and play more at our own expense ?! He can go to hell! ”, Writes an upset Snider in a post on Twitter.
"Responsible"Daniel Ek has made a great fortune by being one of two founders of the popular streaming service - something that several of the artists return to.
"It is extremely clear that the Spotify billionaire Daniel Ek has never created music, or any art at all ... As a musician, I am angry and disappointed that a company with such a large global influence can be so irresponsible when it comes to supporting art. ", Writes electro artist Zola Jesus on Twitter.
REM founders Mike Mills and David Crosby from Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young also criticize the Spotify founder's statements. Among other things, Crosby calls Ek a "disgusting, greedy little shit".