We’ve paid artists $2 billion US, Spotify says
telecom | 11/12/2014 10:08 pm EST
Spotify defended the compensation it pays to the music industry in a blog post Tuesday, writing that it “has paid more than two billion dollars to labels, publishers and collecting societies for distribution to songwriters and recording artists” since it began in 2008.
Spotify CEO Daniel Ek wrote that when “I hear stories about artists and songwriters who say they’ve seen little or no money from streaming and are naturally angry and frustrated, I’m really frustrated too.”
He said that the company has been “trying to build a new music economy that
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