Indie Artist With 4.3 Million Spotify Plays Receives Check for $5,078

If you’re trying to live off your Spotify spins, stop it right now. Taylor Swift makes $400,000 off Spotify in a weekend.  But nearly everyone else making bubkes.  Which means if you’re hoping to making streaming your breadwinner, you’re probably snacking on crumbs. Enter the latest independent artist to share a royalty statement with Digital […]

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Spotify’s average subscriber is paying $30 less a year than they were in 2013

Per-head monthly spend on service has fallen to nearly $5 per month

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Big Publishers Feeling Cheated After Spotify’s Small Publisher Deal

Did major publishers get hoodwinked by Spotify and their own trade association?  That’s the scuttlebutt this week in the wake of an impressive settlement by smaller publishers. So just to bring everyone up to speed… Earlier this month, a collective of indie publishers and songwriters secured a juicy $43.4 million settlement with Spotify over unpaid […]

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Big Publishers Feeling Cheated After Spotify’s Small Publisher Deal

Did major publishers get hoodwinked by Spotify and their own trade association?  That’s the scuttlebutt this week in the wake of an impressive settlement by smaller publishers. So just to bring everyone up to speed… Earlier this month, a collective of indie publishers and songwriters secured a juicy $43.4 million settlement with Spotify over unpaid […]

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