Kat 💖nashs_mom💖

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hey ryan! totally fair points. it's true — more artists are succeeding than ever before in music history, but barriers to entry to releasing music are lower than ever, so there are more artists trying to make it than ever before, too. it's the best time to be an artist, and also the hardest time to be an artist. in terms of the numbers of artists/rightsholders participating in the royalty pool, we're the only streaming service that shares transparent data on this front. i wish the other services would share too. click any revenue level here and you can see exactly how many artists generated that amount of $$ each of the last several years. (this is money paid to the artists' and songwriters' selected rightsholders ... we don't know what their deals are.) loudandclear.byspotify.com/p… the story of our payouts are clear — more and more artists are succeeding every year. more artists generated $100k+ in 2025 than generated $50k+ in 2020. and more artists generated $100k+ in 2025 on spotify alone than even could be stocked on the shelves on the largest record store in the world at the peak of the CD era — for even a chance at making a sale. at the same time, you're absolutely right that more artists are releasing music than ever before, as barriers to entry lower. there's nothing we can do about that. the best we can do is continue to grow the royalty pool, pay more than any other service, and make sure emerging and professional artists (like our new Verified by Spotify pool) are succeeding.