why are they publishing music on spotify then?

I've discovered many artists on spotify and have paid for their live concerts.

Curious, how do you discover music ?

I also use Spotify and like you have discovered a bunch of stuff.

Spotify is just the state of things, the monopoly. Like lots of other current status quos bad for on everyone but investors, old money, the richest but there's no real alternatives.

Though i know at least some smaller artists have moved off the platform, but people live in the biggest apps now so it's hard.

Soundcloud somehow never really translated and bandcamp just went bad after it was sold to investors.

I wonder if the scene is ripe for new platforms that's better for artists.

There’s a lot of misinformation on this post.

A 10 million stream song will gross about $30-40k. After cuts for an artist, depending on the structure, they might get anywhere from most of that to $5-10k.

Not that Spotify is an equitable payment system but let’s be honest about the numbers.