85% of Indies Face 'Negative Impact' from Spotify Stream Minimum

85% of Indies Face 'Negative Impact' from Spotify Stream Minimum

Sofia, Bulgaria. Photo Credit: Natalya Letunova According to a new study, Spotify’s controversial 1,000-stream threshold is negatively affecting nearly two-thirds of indie artists and labels – and particularly those with sizable catalogs – in Southeast Europe. The Association of Independent Music Publishers and Producers Bulgaria (ANMIP-BG) recently provided a fresh look at the threshold’s label-level impact. By now, most are familiar with the m…

Artists from South East Europe at risk of “cultural erasure” as a result of Spotify’s 1000 stream threshold

A new study from Bulgarian trade group ANMIP says that Spotify’s royalty payment threshold, introduced last year, disproportionately affects artists and labels in smaller markets such as Bulgaria, Serbia, Romania, North Macedonia and Albania. With changes to the streaming business model of this kind, the study concludes, “artists from South East Europe are at risk of cultural erasure on the world’s largest music streaming platform”. ANMIP-BG add…

Spotify defends 1,000-stream royalties threshold after critical report

It’s just over two years since Spotify introduced changes to its payouts, including only paying recorded-music royalties for tracks that have been streamed at least 1,000 times in the last 12 months. Now a report published by Bulgarian indies body Anmip-BG has criticised the change’s impact on artists from the Balkans region. It’s based on a survey […] The post is from Music Ally.