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Matt Mullen

Spotify's decision to stop paying royalties on less popular tracks is "discriminatory and exploitative", says competition law expert

Daniel ek.

Last week, Music Business Worldwide reported that Spotify is planning to make some drastic changes to its royalty model in 2024.

The most controversial of these is the decision to stop paying royalties to the artists and rightsholders behind tracks that are streamed less than 1000 times annually, a move that will effectively demonetize more than two-thirds of its entire catalogue.

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