Spotify Penalty exclusive artists – 99mac

Spotify punish artists who write exclusive contracts with other services, including by not bring artists’ songs to playlists.

as previously reported 99mac is exclusive agreements with artists one of the methods that the music service Apple music made use of to attract subscribers. Last week wrote 99mac that even Spotify had to consider exclusive content, even though it is something that goes against the philosophy of the company.

Now the escalating war between Apple and Spotify up further as Bloomberg reports that Spotify punish artists who write contracts for exclusivity with the rival. Artists who release new material only at the Apple Music has been informed that their songs will be featured on Spotify playlists once they become available. Manually together picked playlists has become a popular way for listeners to discover new music.

Playlists are a popular way to discover new music.

Artists who ended in Spotify’s favor should also be placed further down in search results according to anonymous sources, but this is something that the music service itself denied. This hard line is also said to be something like Spotify has applied ever since Apple Music was launched just over a year ago, but it should have escalated in recent months.

Even artists tied to the music service Tidal has been punished by Spotify, according to a source who did not want to mention specifically the musicians involved. Recently it was reported that the record company Universal prohibited its artists to sign exclusive agreements with streaming services.