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I get that finances aren't the best for many people, but it always makes me very sad to see that music has been undervalued to a degree where it's not in anyway unusual to expect to get access to all music ever created for 10 dollars a month. Obviously, that means that the vast majority of artists get very little money. This has lead to a large share of the music available to stream being AI generated garbage. Because it doesn't make sense to put in the time to create a work of art when people are just not prepared to compensate you properly.
I pirate music to see if I like it, and buy what I like, mostly on vinyl, often through Bandcamp. Despite the pirating, I pay far more than 120 dollars a year for music. That's the price of like 3-4 albums, and I haven't gone a year buying less than 10 albums. And that's excluding all the gigs that I go to. Music is valuable to me, and I still have the first album I bought in 1992, and everything thereafter. It's an awesome experience rediscovering stuff I listened to in the nineties, that I had completely forgotten about.
The problem is that they increase the price, today is 12, tomorrow 13 and so on, all this without paying properly the artist (and also financing a shit ass company)
If they increase prices without a proper explanation, i'd stop using the service too
Apple's price increases on Apple Music have not even kept up with inflation. Adjusted for inflation, Apple Music costs less today than it did when they launched it in 2015.
Have they increased the pay to artists too? I don't know where i can find such data
I don't know that information. My understanding is that Apple is right behind Qobuz/Tidal for percentages paid to artists, and significantly better than Spotify/Meta.
https://artists.apple.com/support/1124-apple-music-insights-royalty-rate
There certainly doesn't seem to be any reason to disfavor Apple on this front.