Indie band Deerhoof will remove their catalog from Spotify to protest CEO Daniel Ek's leading a $700 million round in an AI ...

While real artists struggle to earn money on Spotify, a seemingly AI-generated band has garnered enough streams to actually ...

The long-running indie-rock band is protesting chief executive Daniel Ek’s military investments and also said the company “is flushing itself down the toilet” ...

Pitchfork founder Ryan Schreiber is very active on Spotify, including putting his name behind Pitchfork’s very popular list, What’s Good. But this genre-specific playlist, Best New Music ’18 ...

Indie music distribution platform DistroKid has announced that artists can now upload music videos to Spotify via its ...

Of the $10 billion Spotify doled out to music rights holders last year, it gave about $5 billion to indie labels and artists, the company said, a $500 million increase from 2023. "It speaks to ...

Half of Spotify’s Royalties Are Going to Indie Artists. The company confirmed in a new report that it paid $5 billion to the independent music sector in 2024. By Ethan Millman. Plus Icon.

Spotify today is taking another step that may make record labels uncomfortable. ... Spotify will now let indie artists upload their own music. Sarah Perez. 6:30 AM PDT · September 20, 2018.

Indie artists will have to hit a minimum number of streams before they get paid anything from Spotify. The money made from those tracks will be directed to bigger artists.

Such is the case for Spotify’s Songs With the Most Shared Lyrics Globally, in which many higher-ranking songs were released before 2022. Coming in at No. 5 is Keane’s “Somewhere Only We Know ...