Very minor correction - 70% goes to rights holders, 30% goes to Spotify. A rights holder may or may not be an artist - quite often, the rights holder for the r

Very minor correction - 70% goes to rights holders, 30% goes to Spotify. A rights holder may or may not be an artist - quite often, the rights holder for the recording royalty is a record label, and the artist is getting a percentage of what the label takes. There is also the publishing (songwriter) royalty - and the songwriter may or may not be the recording artist.