But now, with Spotify’s recent policy shift that allows COVID vaccine misinformation to thrive on their platform, Failure have decided that enough is enough.īeyond the moral issues raised by Spotify’s COVID decision, the issue of vaccine misinformation and how it directly affects the current situation in the live music space is simply untenable. Acquiescing to the desire for more ear holes. That is exactly where Failure have been since 2015 when we released our first album since reuniting.

Do we give our music to a company that devalues our product to the point where royalty checks from Spotify have become the butt of humorous memes, or do we withhold our music from the platform and supposedly miss out on an “entire generation of music listeners?”

It's been a scam for artists since the beginning, following in the tradition of the major label model which preceded it.īut artists who want to have their music heard by the most ears possible have had an tough decision to make. We’ve all seen the stories of just how little Spotify pays artists whose product powers their entire business model. Until now, our ambivalence about Spotify has been based on their draconian royalty calculation which essentially gives artists a microscopic fraction of the money being generated by their music on the platform. Failure have wrestled with the question of Spotify and whether to have our newest music, which we control, on the platform.

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