Title: Report: Spotify considers restricting biggest releases to paid users as it renegotiates royalties w/ labels Post by: HCK on March 17, 2017, 04:05:19 pm Report: Spotify considers restricting biggest releases to paid users as it renegotiates royalties w/ labels
<div class="feat-image">(https://9to5mac.files.wordpress.com/2016/10/spotify.png?w=1600&h=1000#038;h=500)</div> <p>Spotify is considering a move that would mean some of its biggest new releases will be restricted to paid users, according to a new report from Financial Times (https://www.ft.com/content/b169046a-09ca-11e7-97d1-5e720a26771b). The decision would come as part of a negotiation with record labels that would reduce the amount of royalties Spotify pays for songs and also allow the company to prepare for an initial public offering, the report claims:</p> <p> <a href="https://9to5mac.com/2017/03/16/spotify-royalties-labels-new-releases-apple-music-paid-subscribers/#more-472422" class="more-link">more…[/url]</p> Filed under: <a href='https://9to5mac.com/category/apple/'>Apple[/url] <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/9to5mac.wordpress.com/472422/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/9to5mac.wordpress.com/472422/" />[/url] <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/9to5mac.wordpress.com/472422/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/9to5mac.wordpress.com/472422/" />[/url] <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gofacebook/9to5mac.wordpress.com/472422/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/facebook/9to5mac.wordpress.com/472422/" />[/url] <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gotwitter/9to5mac.wordpress.com/472422/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/twitter/9to5mac.wordpress.com/472422/" />[/url] <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/9to5mac.wordpress.com/472422/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/9to5mac.wordpress.com/472422/" />[/url] <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/9to5mac.wordpress.com/472422/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/9to5mac.wordpress.com/472422/" />[/url] <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/9to5mac.wordpress.com/472422/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/9to5mac.wordpress.com/472422/" />[/url] <img alt="" border="0" src="https://pixel.wp.com/b.gif?host=9to5mac.com&blog=22754319&post=472422&subd=9to5mac&ref=&feed=1" width="1" height="1" /><img alt="" border="0" src="https://pixel.wp.com/b.gif?host=9to5mac.com&blog=22754319&post=472422&subd=9to5mac&ref=&feed=1" width="1" height="1" /><div class="feedflare"> <img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/9To5Mac-MacAllDay?i=W1Xu0MOm5j4:jI-RgOWkHng:D7DqB2pKExk" border="0"></img> (http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/9To5Mac-MacAllDay?a=W1Xu0MOm5j4:jI-RgOWkHng:D7DqB2pKExk) </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/9To5Mac-MacAllDay/~4/W1Xu0MOm5j4" height="1" width="1" alt=""/> Source: Report: Spotify considers restricting biggest releases to paid users as it renegotiates royalties w/ labels (http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/9To5Mac-MacAllDay/~3/W1Xu0MOm5j4/) |