Wildly disrespectful to any artist that ever lived. I’m all up for sharing alternatives that are good/better towards actual artists. Still evaluating my choices, but meanwhile this seems like the only and rather easy signal the streaming community can give as to spread the word if they agree (next to stopping your own subscription). Context: https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/22/spotifys-ai-bet-more-of-everything-less-of-what-you-want/
FWIW, I do believe there are Spotify-exclusive artists and Spotify-first releases.
But, Qobuz and Tidal both pay artists significantly better than Spotify; I recommend Qobuz. YT Music might be slightly better than Spotify for now, but Google is taking all the enshittified parts of Spotify and trying to do the same things to YT Music as fast as possible.
Yeah, YT Music is even worse because of the monopolist concern. If they replace Spotify, they basically own the entire music world. Artist literally could not reject YT Music without throwing their career in the toilet (via being absent from all of YouTube, and undiscoverable on what’s left of the web).
Anyway, I was also thinking of Pandora. But there are tons of good music streaming services, big and small.