Spotify to let artists promote music in user recommendations in exchange for different royalty rates – NME

Spotify is testing a new feature allowing artists to boost visibility of specific tracks through the platform’s recommendation algorithms, in exchange for different royalty rates on those songs’ streams.
The boosted songs will appear in Spotify’s Radio and Autoplay features upon launch, with the potential to expand to other personalised listening modes available on the platform.
The new feature, named “Discovery Mode”, was announced yesterday (November 2) in a press release from Spotify’s newsroom….

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