Did you know that if you stream music from a Spotify family plan, artists earn even less because your plan is cheaper?

Or that Spotify has been quietly stuffing editorial playlists with royalty-free songs—so they don’t have to pay artists at all.

I made exactly $0 from Spotify in 2024.

And yet… here are my numbers.

Meanwhile, their stock is soaring, hitting $550 after their partnership with Universal Music Group. But what does that really mean?
More money for labels, less for artists. The math is simple.

Yet, something is happening. More and more artists are speaking out—publicly, loudly, unapologetically. Social media is buzzing. The industry is shifting. A revolution is brewing.

And what about Web3 music? It didn’t have the explosive, hype-driven rise that other Web3 assets saw—but maybe that’s exactly why it’s working. It’s growing organically, grounded in real-world adoption, not artificial inflation. As the traditional industry collapses under its own weight, people are looking for new solutions.

And so I ask myself—and all of you—what’s next?

We’ve proven that music can be experienced beyond passive listening.
We’ve built a real community, one that values music as more than just background noise. But what if we could go further?
What if we could enter music, feel it, touch it, believe in it in ways we never have before?

What if this technology could accelerate change while bringing back something deeply human—the way we truly experience art?

AI music? It won’t replace musicians. It can’t. Because musicians were always the art.

Let’s go beyond just hearing. Let’s see music. Feel music. Own music. The next chapter is ours to write.

Violetta