Cedric Vermue

Cedric Vermue is a pianist and producer of neo-classical music based in Amsterdam

Why any music lover should leave Spotify:

- The CEO has invested 700 million $ in Helsing, an AI weapon company

- They allow AI music to thrive on the platform (eg. the velvet sundown). Their algorhithms generally prefer quantity over quality and respond well to frequent releases (easy to achieve with AI-generated music).

- They are flooding their editorial playlists with Perfect Fit Content which consists of ghost writers / stock music with fake artist accounts that have no existence outside of Spotify. (Eg. Peaceful Piano, Deep Focus, Intense Studying etc. etc.).

- They only pay 0.003$ a stream and have a free tier, bringing the value of music down.

- They share the music in low quality 320 kbps and encourage passive algorithmic listening, where music becomes background noise.

These are all reasons why Spotify has obtained a big-tech mentality only interested in their own profits, instead of supporting the artists on their platform. Spotify has been awesome in its first 10 years but this time is over. Please respect the hardworking musician, unsubscribe from Spotify and move to Tidal / Apple Music / Qobuz instead. There are apps available that will transfer all your playlists. Also these services pay $ 0.007-$ 0.013 a stream, supporting the artists you listen to much better.

Thanks for reading and much love,
Cedric