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Hey, everyone. Welcome back to another week and another Soundbite. Five years ago, Spotify Technology SA debuted a feature that gives labels and artists preferential treatment when recommending their songs in exchange for a lower royalty rate. Despite a huge uproar at the time, the tool has taken over the business. We\u2019ll dig in.<\/p>\n

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\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.bloomberg.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hey, everyone. Welcome back to another week and another Soundbite. Five years ago, Spotify Technology SA debuted a feature that gives labels and artists preferential treatment when recommending their songs in exchange for a lower royalty rate. Despite a huge uproar at the time, the tool has taken over the business. We\u2019ll dig in. If […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1980595,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25179],"tags":[355118,344480,21796,307250,355119,349656,22693,21999,355117,355120,355115,355116],"class_list":["post-1980594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","tag-adam-mosseri","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-business","tag-chief-executive-officer","tag-denis-ladegaillerie","tag-executives","tag-los-angeles","tag-radio","tag-robert-a-kyncl","tag-screentime","tag-spotify-technology-sa","tag-universal-music-group-nv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Music-Industrys-Go-To-Promotional-Tool-Went-From-\u2018Payola-Accusations-to.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1980594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1980594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1980594\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1980595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1980594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1980594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1980594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}