It's not that complicated, you just agree to give up 30% of your royalties and Spotify autoplays your track more than any other track (and includes it more in R

It's not that complicated, you just agree to give up 30% of your royalties and Spotify autoplays your track more than any other track (and includes it more in Release Radar / Discover Weekly / Daily Mix / Radio): https://artists.spotify.com/discovery-mode https://artists.spotify.com/discovery-mode No serious label does this as there's no benefit from those drive-by listens other than making the number go up, but you can bet that nearly every artist without a label that somehow reaches over a million listens on their first release does. Editorial playlists on the other hand actually require you to do good in some of the niche ones before you get "promoted" to the bigger ones.