Last month, Music Business Worldwide (MBW) reported that Spotify will overhaul its royalty model next year with three new requirements for tracks to earn streaming royalties.
Today, MBW has confirmed that one of these requirements is a minimum annual stream count of 1,000 plays.
This means that any track on the platform will need to reach 1,000 streams before it can begin earning royalties, a count significantly higher than MBW’s initial prediction of about 200.
Spotify contends that this new rule will “demonetize a population of tracks that today, on average, earn less than five…
