you may have already heard about this - Spotify's changing their payment rules by 2024. Deezer first started with some similiar idea.
So the three main parts are: a treshold of streams (likely 1000) to receive royalities. For all tracks/artists that don't reach that, there will be a pool transfering to the rest of the artists. I'm not totally sure yet, but I think that's a good thing. For those under 1000, you barely earn anything and don't really care about it. Action/financial penalties against fraud activities. Minimum play-time lenght for non-music content (rain, white noise ect.). We just talked about AI content - which is a good sign against it :) but I hope Spotify is able to keep the right decisions and there's no flood of bans of real music. here's an article about it: https://www.billboard.com/pro/spotify-changing-how-pays-artists-stream-thresholds/ and one video by Andrew Southgate: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QS7WZm38Sjc
I am a bit unsure how to feel about the "Action/financial penalties against fraud activities" part. Friends of mine and myself included sometimes get added to clearly bot-managed and bot-played playlists. And we are really concerned every single time of the consequences it will have for us. Especially because you have absolutely no control over it. Not gaining royalties from these streams is fine of course but if they start to hand out penalties for artists on those playlists....I don't know.
I heard about this recently but never got to read more about it, thank you for sharing Kjell. i'm not sure yet what my thoughts are but it's definitely information worth spreading!
Interesting info and the video raises some valid points about the difficulties of implementing these policies fairly.
I agree that the income from less than 1000 streams is not a lot but I think that the policy disincentivises putting out extra tracks. For example if you put an album out it might get reasonable plays on 2 or 3 lead tracks but the rest of the tracks might not be getting lots of plays. You could have 10 album tracks getting 900 plays each a year, multiply that over a few albums and there's a fair chunk of revenue that you're not getting.
So it might deter artists even more from putting more lots of tracks on albums, or b sides with singles etc which I don't think is a good thing.
Interesting Kjell!