Some good points, but you know why Spotify is the goto platform? Because its the perfect platform for the music fan. Their database is so much larger than eg TIDAL and all the other services.
With the rise of the Internet, computers and the powerful laptops with the complete studio hardware and all instruments put into software and samples, the number of people creating music, dramatically increased. All competing for attention from the same listeners, the music fan. Like in any other industry, also in music one cannot think when creating a product (a song/track/album), it sells by itself. In no industry, the product will sell itself. It requires all the business tactics and tasks to market the product. In music, this was also always the case, also before the Internet, even before the vinyl was invented.
Lately, I'm reading more and more (blog posts) by musicians, complaining about the current state of affairs, complaining they not making money from music, complaining they are not picked up by the market. Often these people just produce music (some to more even mediocre of quality), and not thinking of gigs. Maybe some want to be booked at a venue (large or small), but not getting booked. Again, for this to happen, business tactics are required. It's as simple as that. Those musicians discovering the crypto rewarded music platform, have the hopes these platforms will pay them more than in the fiat world. Many of them tell me, they are music creators, producers and like to be compensated for their music creation work, while not paying for promotions, marketing, plugging, booking. With these crypto music platform, the reality will not change though. The middle man is always required, since the amount of artists and music productions in the market, requires business tactics to stand out in the crowd, to get the attention of the music listener/fan.
Anyway, long story short. I tried TIDAL years ago, but left it for Spotify because TIDAL had a lot less music I want to listen to regularly. I never really tried Deezer though. Keep in mind, when eg TIDAL pays lets say 2 times more to an artist, but the tracks of that artist is played 3 times less at TIDAL compared to Spotify, with what platform will the artist earn the most?
Thank You for this useful information. I really didn't know about that. I will use Spotify and Deezer. Both of them. Kind Regards, Sasha