Spotify's 2021 royalty report paints a rose-tinted vision of the music streaming industry - The Verge

Spotify has updated its “Loud & Clear” site for 2021, giving an updated look at how it paid out royalties to artists and record labels last year and an (optimistic) view of the music streaming industry.

Spotify paid out $7 billion in 2021 to the music industry as a whole Spotify is continuing its effort to offer some transparency to musicians who are unhappy with its streaming rates. The company up… [+3029 chars]

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