[pertsix]

This is not true/unfair interpretation.

An artist does not get paid after the first payment from the label from the sale of a CD. If you play the CD on repeat, the artist does not benefit, nor does the label.

/Labels/ get paid for every single listen on Spotify.

There is also Spotify Direct, too, and the artist can directly benefit more than if they went with a label.

[geden]

You appear to have missed the point. I'm singling out a genre of music where you might only listen to an album a few times. So repeat plays are irrelevant.

[kzrdude]

Maybe pay per play is not fair, payout shouldn't be linearly proportional to number of plays!

[syrrim]

huh? is label revenue unrelated to artist revenue?