Duran Duran’s Simon Le Bon Takes Swipe At Music Streaming Services, Insists ‘Artists Need To Get Paid Properly’

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Duran Duran lead singer Simon Le Bon has had enough of audio streaming services. Le Bon insisted “there’s going to be a hole” in the next generation of artists if musicians continue to receive little money per stream on services such as Spotify and Apple Music.

The singer told NME, without naming a specific service: “Artists need to get paid properly for music that is streamed, that’s where the money should be coming from. “What do artists get?

It’s like 0.2 of a penny per stream and that’s not just for artists, a percentage of that will go to the record company as well who then don’t give it to the artists, they’ll give it to the people they consider to be the most successful artists.” RELATED: Duran Duran Reveal They Once Blew Off A Pitch