I think that’s a too-narrow way of looking at it. For an individual artist it’s not much. For Spotify it’s huge, all of those nickels and dimes add up quickly.

I think that’s a too-narrow way of looking at it. For an individual artist it’s not much. For Spotify it’s huge, all of those nickels and dimes add up quickly. It also doesn’t matter if their current plan is to redistribute 100% of the gains to other artists, since this becomes profit they didn’t need to sacrifice to appease big acts. I.e. small artists pay so Spotify doesn’t have to. Most importantly the artists didn’t sign up for this arrangement when they first joined Spotify, but now due to Spotify’s size they may feel compelled to give away their work for free for the chance at being successful or keeping fans happy.