The Black Keys’ Music Comes to Spotify
The Black Keys’ Patrick Carney, an outspoken critic of the free-tiered streaming model, has announced the band will no longer hold music from Spotify. The move comes “after five years of struggling,” Carney wrote on Twitter, because he’d “rather people hear our music than not.” Back in June, Carney said anyone who teams with streaming services without advocating for fair pay was a “sell out”; today, he said he’d still fight for fairer artist payments. See his tweets below.
Read “The Year in Streaming 2016.”
After five years of struggling with this we agreed to put the keys songs on Spotify. I’d rather people hear our music than not.
— Patrick Carney (@patrickcarney) December 19, 2016
No advance or money was exchanged. I’m still an advocate for artists to be paid fairly. I’m still apprehensive.
— Patrick Carney (@patrickcarney) December 19, 2016
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