“In April 2024, Spotify implemented a new scheme: songs with less than 1k streams per year would no longer receive royalties.
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“In April 2024, Spotify implemented a new scheme: songs with less than 1k streams per year would no longer receive royalties.
The data for 2025 was just released via Luminate, and 88% of songs have been demonetized.
Read it again: 88% of songs on Spotify have been demonetized.”
https://musically.com/2026/01/15/5-1tn-annual-music-streams-but-120-5m-tracks-had-10-or-fewer/
@jonhicks I am a musician but I never make any money. I quit being a Spotify customer when I discovered their CEO was financially supporting military AI from Germany or something evil like that. That money should have gone to the musicians. Now my music is on Bandcamp.
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“In April 2024, Spotify implemented a new scheme: songs with less than 1k streams per year would no longer receive royalties.
The data for 2025 was just released via Luminate, and 88% of songs have been demonetized.
Read it again: 88% of songs on Spotify have been demonetized.”
https://musically.com/2026/01/15/5-1tn-annual-music-streams-but-120-5m-tracks-had-10-or-fewer/
@jonhicks @myrobotfriend Ugh. I thought independence would screw the music industry but then the tech bros took over the music industry and showed them how to *really* screw, nickel and dime artists and the audience.
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“In April 2024, Spotify implemented a new scheme: songs with less than 1k streams per year would no longer receive royalties.
The data for 2025 was just released via Luminate, and 88% of songs have been demonetized.
Read it again: 88% of songs on Spotify have been demonetized.”
https://musically.com/2026/01/15/5-1tn-annual-music-streams-but-120-5m-tracks-had-10-or-fewer/
@jonhicks this is unbelievable. Spotify had/has the best recommendation “algorithm” I’ve ever experienced. But they seem to be artist hostile.
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“In April 2024, Spotify implemented a new scheme: songs with less than 1k streams per year would no longer receive royalties.
The data for 2025 was just released via Luminate, and 88% of songs have been demonetized.
Read it again: 88% of songs on Spotify have been demonetized.”
https://musically.com/2026/01/15/5-1tn-annual-music-streams-but-120-5m-tracks-had-10-or-fewer/
@jonhicks This is not unexpected, I guess there are plenty of scammers around that just spam Spotify with keyword stuffing or whatever.
What's a lot more interesting to me is how many *listens* have been demonetized. That's not such a "tech is evil" statistic though, so the media better not report it I guess.
