Spotify to let artists, labels trade royalties for input on recommendations

November 2, 2020By rightstech

The streaming platform has today (November 2) confirmed that it will soon start allowing artists and record labels to flag tracks that are a particular priority for them via a ‘Discovery Mode’ feature… and that this flagging will then influence the selection of songs that Spotify’s algorithm picks out for listeners.

Source: Spotify is letting record labels influence personalized recommendations… so long as they pay for it in royalties

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