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Spotify Tells Us: From Each According to Their Ability, To Each According to Their Market Share

Summary by Music Technology Policy
In a recent Hypebot interview, a Spotify executive urged the industry to stop focusing on per-stream royalty rates and instead turn attention toward “fan engagement.” This isn’t a new argument—it’s just the same old con updated for the streaming economy: Don’t worry about your paycheck, just be happy people are listening. But when Spotify tells artists and songwriters to ignore the only metric that affects their income—the per-stream rate—that’s…
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Music Technology Policy broke the news in on Friday, May 9, 2025.
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