Spotify’s New Streaming Policy Would Have Made 152 Million Songs Ineligible for Compensation Last Year

A new report from Luminate reveals the scale of the impact

The Spotify website on a laptop computer arranged in Hastings-on-Hudson, New York, US, on Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2023. 

Photographer: Tiffany Hagler-Geard/Bloomberg

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