Jay Aston is frustrated by music streaming services. The 63-year-old singer is part of The Fizz alongside Cheryl Baker and Mike Nolan – who, along with former member Bobby G, won Eurovision in 1981 as Bucks Fizz with 'Making Your Mind Up' – and said even though their hit track sold four million copies worldwide back in their heyday, with the onset of platforms such as Spotify, only global artists such as Taylor Swift and Ed Sheeran stand any chance of making money from digital releases. She told BANG Showbiz: "It's kind of terrible in the sense that we don't really get any money from it.
"To make a few thousand pounds, you've got to have a million streams on Spotify. Journalism for the curious Australian across politics, business, culture and opinion. "So it's like 000.
1 of a penny every time like 100 people listen to your songs. "Most artists are not happy about that but at the moment, there's nothing we can do about it. "Back in the day, if you had a million people listen to your songs, there'd be a million pounds in the kitty.
And so, although technology is advanced and is brilliant in some respects, it isn't for the artists and others a lot of the time people go ‘Well, why do you think because you've recorded something in 1982 or an album or whatever, you should make ongoing income from it?’ "But it's like any investment you know, people need to think about putting it in context. "There's (artists such as) Taylor Swift and then there’s poor artists who aren’t .
