Spotify Earnings: The Music Streaming War Is Heating Up

Spotify has inserted sponsored songs in listeners’ playlists, and has also discussed charging artists and labels for data about their habits.

There is an overload of music. 60,000 songs are uploaded to Spotify every day. Over 20% of those don’t get streamed even once. The ubiquitous access to almost every piece of recorded music in history has led to a paradox of choice, promoting passive and playlist-driven music consumption and creating winner-take-all effects for the biggest artists.