"In a completely unrelated note, Spotify is shutting down in Uruguay after the country passed a bill that requires fair pay to artists, as reported by MixMag. The company made threats to shut down when the bill was first suggested back in July and now it has followed through. A spokesperson for Spotify actually wrote Uruguay's Minister of Education, Pablo Da Silveira, to say that the country’s bill would force it to “pay twice” the amount of royalties to artists." "

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Spotify confirms it won't offer payouts for songs with fewer than 1,000 plays

Spotify has officially unveiled its new streaming payment policies for artists and labels and the details haven’t changed from previous reports. Payments...

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