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Kate Nash and Lily Allen on OnlyFans should be a wake-up call for the music industry (www.standard.co.uk)

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[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

there’s no one in any seat of real power in the “music industry” who is a musician.

That's not strictly true. A number of popular musicians started their own labels and cultivated their own talent. Dr. Dre, Hay-Z and Beyonce, Snoop Dog, NIN, The Beetles and Rolling Stones, Eminem, Madonna, Mackelmoore...

What's really changed over time is distribution. Digital music has huge margins, but prying them out of the near monopoly of Spotify and YouTube is much harder than simply selling CD/Vinyl copies of your songs at your shows