[troupo]

Again. Spotify doesn't pay musicians directly. Spotify pays distirbutors and rights holders.

Literally in the very article everyone links to but is incapable of reading there's even this text:

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Epidemic’s selling point is that the music is royalty-free for its own subscribers, but it does collect royalties from streaming services; these it splits with artists fifty-fifty.

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