Sheryl Crow Says Spotify Payments Make Her ‘Sad and Sick’
Count Sheryl Crow among the growing number of famous musicians dismayed by the paltry payments artists receive from Spotify. The beloved singer, and 2023 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee, was recently a guest on Club Random with Bill Maher. The two compared recent trends in the music industry, compared to when Crow was starting out. “[Now] you create your brand, you advertise yourself, you sell yourself,” the singer explained. “Then the music is just a byproduct of that, and you’re selling yourself so that you can sell tickets and get advertisers. That was never part of the way I came up. The...