It shouldve been one of the best streaming platforms by now it was running the music platform for awhile after the live mixtapes/DatPiff era but I feel Soundcloud didnt expand or grow after it was in its prime and now platforms like Spotify,Apple, Tidal, & Amazon (its coming soon) are the fore runners for artist indie and industry to post music & get paid for it. I dont even think SoundCloud need to pay ppl bc sooooooo many careers have been birthed because of SoundCloud but they couldve did more to expand their brand. Maybe they couldve been what Spotify and Apple Music is with paying people, maybe even made a deal with Apple or Samsung to have phone come installed with SoundCloud like YouTube, do interviews with big indie artists on yall charts, something to branch out.