![]() The outburst shows a schism between much of the music industry’s belief in Spotify’s business model and critics who feel labels and artists do not receive enough money for streams of their music. He has produced every Radiohead album since 1997’s “OK Computer” as well as material by Beck, The Strokes, Pavement, Travis, Air and Gnarls Barkley. Godrich named three albums that have been pulled from Spotify: “Eraser,” the 2006 solo album Radiohead singer Thom Yorke the 2013 album “Amok” by Atoms for Peace (of which Yorke and Godrich are members) and the self-titled album by Ultraista, a collaboration between Godrich, Joey Waronker (also a member of Atoms for Peace) and Laura Bettinson.Īlthough Godrich called the removal of the three albums a “small, meaningless rebellion,” he is a powerful voice in the music business. Meanwhile small labels and new artists can’t even keep their lights on. It’s about establishing the model which will be extremely valuable. ![]() “The numbers don’t even add up for spotify yet,” he tweeted. Godrich takes issue with the economics of Spotify and the royalties that flow to artists. In a series of Tweets on Sunday, famed producer Nigel Godrich called Spotify “bad for new music” and said three of his projects had been pulled from the ad-supported subscription service.
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