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Google admits Spotify pays no Play Store fees because of a secret deal | TechCrunch(techcrunch.com)

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GissaMittJobb@lemmy.ml
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https://support.spotify.com/us/artists/article/royalties/

It’s net revenue split to rights holders according to the share of streams. If you have 1% of all streams on Spotify in a given time period, you get 0.7% of net revenue for that period.

How the rights holders distribute the money onward to the artists is not exactly transparent though.

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selokichtli@lemmy.ml
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I suspected that much, it must be a complicated matter with many different cases, considering how music is produced. Thank you for your insight.

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GissaMittJobb@lemmy.ml
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Any time.

To be clear, I don’t think this should be taken as a defense of Spotify. I just think that these misconceptions distract from more valid criticisms.

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