Dani Filth (CoF) says Spotify are criminals

Cradle of Filth frontman Dani Filth says the music industry has become a "hard time" for musicians to earn a living, blaming the shift toward streaming and easy access to music. Speaking to Sakis Fragos of Rock Hard Greece, Filth said streaming platforms "that don't pay anybody" have made things much harder since the digital age began, and he called Spotify "the biggest criminals in the world." He said that across 25 or 26 million plays the previous year, he personally earned about 20 pounds. He added that many people wrongly assume that physical product means musicians are earning a fortune, since record companies, management and accountants take shares of what little money there is.