As first reported by the Financial Times, independent labels Beggars Group, Secretly Group, and Partisan Records are pushing back against Apple’s preferential payouts for spatial audio. They say independent artists who can’t afford to record in spatial audio would make less because of how streaming music payouts work. Apple said artists on Apple Music can get bonuses of up to 10 percent for creating music with spatial audio.
Source: Indie labels cry foul over Apple Music’s enhanced spatial audio royalties