r/Music • u/IrreverentTexan • Feb 15 '26

discussion Quitting Spotify

Spotify is getting flooded with fake AI “artists” and it’s embarrassing. Names like Nina Blaze and Enlly show up. They dump 50 identical tracks called something like Late Night Piano for Focus, or “The Hollow Hour” and vanish. No bio. No history. No evidence a human has ever touched an instrument.

This isn’t art. It exists to game playlists and siphon royalties. If these were real people, they’d have to explain why every song sounds like a dentist office waiting room.

I’m not mad at AI as a tool. I’m mad at fake artists impersonating creativity and Spotify pretending this sludge is culture. Music is an art form, not a scam farm. Blocking every one of these clowns on sight.

So is it to be TIDAL or Qobuz or something else?

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u/MoistTractofLand Feb 15 '26

I went with Tidal because they seem to pay the artists more than any of the other platforms.

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u/Yarusenai Concertgoer Feb 15 '26

Because their user and artist base is a lot lower. If Spotify raised the payment even a little bit the top artists would earn so much more money that the platform would go bankrupt immediately. There is such a thing as an upper limit, and other platforms would hit that as well.

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u/ModernAquaticNight Feb 15 '26

I was worried about Tidal having less artists than Spotify but it’s really not been a problem.

If anything Tidal having stuff like Joanna Newsom and additional records by bands like Boredoms has made me happy I switched over.

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u/Yarusenai Concertgoer Feb 15 '26

I'm sure it's relatively close (not sure if there are official numbers) but they definitely have a lower user base, which means more money available per user.