Spotify responds to Snoop Dogg diss and $45,000 for a billion streams claim
Earlier this week, Snoop Dogg announced a partnership with Tune.FM to become the new face of the Web3 music streaming platform. In doing so, he also took shots at Spotify in a statement, saying, “I don’t fuck with Spotify anymore, I’m only on Tune.FM.” Snoop plans to move his music, including his Death Row material, over to the platform.
Spotify came across his comments and responded to another claim Snoop made in December, in which he said he only received $45,000 for a billion streams.
A spokesperson told TMZ, “We can’t speak to endorsement deals for Web3 companies, but $45K for a billion streams? It’s well documented that a billion streams on Spotify generates millions of dollars to rights holders.”
“It’s unfortunate to hear that Spotify’s payments didn’t make it through to Snoop. Snoop’s a legend and, hopefully now that he owns Death Row Records, he’s seeing more of that money.”
Snoop’s criticism appeared on the Business Untitled podcast, where he called out Spotify for the lack of money he receives for his music being streamed.
“Let me tell you the thing that worked with me, it was simple, it was transparency,” he said about NFT technology. “That’s what the music industry and the film industry doesn’t have, so this was a way to show transparency. Give me a song, give me a song, I’m taking 60% ’cause I’m putting it out for you, you getting 40% that may sound like a lot but you just made $100,000.”
He continued, “They just sent me some shit from Spotify, where I got a billion streams, right? My publisher hit me. I said, ‘Break that down, how much money is that?’ That shit wasn’t even $45,000. You see what I’m saying? So it’s like, when this shit came out, I could tell an artist that same song that you put out traditionally that didn’t make no money, give it to me. Every time you sell it, if somebody else sell it, you get 10% of it.”
After teaming up with Snoop, Tune.FM founder and CEO, Andrew Antar, said, “We are thrilled to welcome Snoop Dogg as the face of Tune.FM. Snoop is the OG pioneer who is always on the cutting edge of technology and new ways of doing business. He totally gets it, and we are ready to take on the world together.”