I am providing my own music on Spotify via a distributor I a pay 50 Euros once. What do I get from Spotify? Basically nothing! It is not the rightholders as I am the rightholder! Spotify is a scam for artist.

They don't pay any artist who has less than 1000/Streams per Song per Year.

They also deliberately choose a model which favours big artists, where they split the compensation just by the plays instead of User Centric Payments.

Either way I don't feel bad about the Labels or Spotify.

If I want to support an artist I buy their music, go to a concert or buy merch.

I've had a Spotify Subscription, but that got cancelled as I didn't agree to the recent Price Hike, as I wasn't interested in paying for AudioBooks I don't care about.

Now I'm rolling with YouTubeMusic and I am looking for a less shitty alternative