Spotify and Artist Royalties

A big concern for any artist is making sure that they get paid for their music. With the change in the music industry and artist marketing an artist and labels have to think about the best way to distribute the music.

Since with Spotify an artist does not get paid when someone purchases a song but for how many times the song gets played. Fans are able to share their playlist with friend as well as suggest songs to friends. There are also featured artist and albums that listeners can choose from.

Now an artist would definitely want to become a featured artist because that will help to increase how many times their songs are played. Even if a listener is not a fan of the artist or never heard their music they are more likely to become curious and play their songs to find out the reason for the artist music to be featured. So of course bigger artist with major label backing with more than likely become a featured artist than an underground artist.

Underground artist need to make sure they have a good management and marketing team to ensure that they become visible to a larger fan base. This will increase the amount of plays and increase their royalty revenue.