Spotify’s new royalty model is the latest attempt to try to bring streaming royalties in line with the dynamics of todays’ streaming market. It has many laudable objectives and intentions, but there is no escaping the threat perceived by artists and companies that operate in the long tail. With many of those artists set to no longer collect even paltry royalty statements, the question is what those artists will do next.
Source: How Spotify’s new model could accelerate a forking of music