When Spotify signed Joe Rogan there was also a lot of news at the time about how royalties are shared and how most artists make little on streams. At the time I looked up which service overall was the friendliest to the artists and it turned out to be Apple. My wife wanted Apple Fitness so we cancelled Spotify and took the Apple bundle deal. It looks like Tidal currently offers the best royalty share followed by Apple.
The streaming apps honestly don't give me that much value aside from access to the music itself. Prior to that I was the sort of person with a massive CD collection. I am a prog-rock/metal guy and I almost never listen to playlists and I have always been too lazy to make them. I like to listen to either full albums or full artist shuffles generally. That works for me and it's pretty much the basic thing all of these services provide. I very much appreciate music overall and I will give up some convenience features in an app if they are giving more money back to artists. The stuff I enjoy listening to is already niche enough nowadays.
I just want more music in the world. Not more streaming app features.
That's not really fare Apple makes money selling gadgets and massively inflated mark-ups and can basically lose as much money as Spotify does indefinitely.
Spotify is a music streaming company with nothing behind it.
Of course Spotify can't share as much as a company that uses music streaming as a loss leader.
As to friendliest to the artists that's all on the record labels as any licencing deals to music streamers go through them first.
