Spotify launched 'discovery mode' that provides artists extra promotion in exchange for a lower royalty rate. Congress now has some questions.
, the Artists Rights Alliance slammed Discovery Mode, describing it as “a new pay-for-play scheme.” “
The letter to Spotify from House Judiciary Committee Chairman Rep. Jerry Nadler and Rep. Hank Johnson Jr. expresses concern that “Discovery Mode” “may set in motion a ‘race to the bottom’ in which artists and labels feel compelled to accept lower royalties as a necessary way to break through an extremely crowded and competitive music environment.”
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