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They're slashing royalties to the very same long-tail artists you think you're supporting. > A new threshold of minimum annual streams that a track must meet b
by rchaud 3y ago
They're slashing royalties to the very same long-tail artists you think you're supporting.
> A new threshold of minimum annual streams that a track must meet before it starts to generate royalties. The threshold, according to MBW, will de-monetize tracks that had previously received 0.5% of Spotify’s royalty pool.
https://www.billboard.com/pro/spotify-changing-how-pays-artists-stream-thresholds/ https://www.billboard.com/pro/spotify-changing-how-pays-arti...
- zuminator 3y agoThat's ostensibly to deter the proliferation of noise and programmatically generated junk where one "artist" might upload hundreds or thousands of tracks in the hope of getting paid due to accidental clicks and the like. Anyway if the cutbacks only represent 0.5% of the total royalty pool, then they don't impact what's typically meant by the long tail, wherein the smaller back catalog items, in aggregate, end up being a substantial fraction of the total sales.