Customers could soon be paying for more services, according to reports Spotify has officially demonetised all tracks with under 1,000 streams. The new policy came into effect for all artists in 1st April 2024. The revised revenue scheme was announced last year, and means music will only be included in the royalty pool calculation if it [...]
Spotify, Apple, YouTube, and Amazon generate 96 percent of income for independent artists. A new report has found that independent musicians need to generate five million streams annually to make the US federal minimum wage. The data has been uncovered in the annual 2023 Music Economics Report for Independent Artists from music financing [...]
The streaming service reportedly plans to raise the threshold for royalties payments to 1000 plays per track Spotify has announced it will be changing its royalties structure, with reports claiming it will pay less royalties to less-popular artists. This new structure reportedly introduces a minimum streams per song requirement for artists to gain [...]
Spotify The game really did just change. Spotify has today launched a new feature which will enable independent artists to upload tracks to the service directly – without any requirement for a third-party aggregator or record label. The feature currently remains in invite-only beta mode – with a few hundred US [...]
SPOTIFY PLAYLIST: 50 OVERLOOKED CLASSICS PACKED WITH PROPER HOUSE GROOVES Tracks by Mr. Oizo, Audio Werner, Inland Knights and more HARRISON WILLIAMS (Mix Mag) 9 NOVEMBER 2017 This week's update to Mixmag's Overlooked Classics playlist on Spotify features a collection of deep and rhythmic house cuts from the depths of dance music's vast history, featuring [...]
