SAMPLED#Spotify
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Stories tagged #Spotify on Sampled — sound, style, and scenes, all in one place.
What Is Music Distribution and How Do You Get on Spotify?
What a distributor does, what it costs, how long it takes, and the exact steps from finished file to live release.
How Spotify Royalties Work: What a Stream Really Pays
There is no fixed per-stream rate. Here is how the payout pool works, where your money gets split, and how to plan around it.
Small rooms are the new platform marketing — and that is good news for local promoters
A streaming service is putting established artists in tiny hometown venues. The format is old; the reason it is back is data.
Spotify's live-video pivot meets its Universal AI deal — the bundle thesis gets real
Concert streaming, narrated magazine articles, emoji reactions, AI licensing. In two weeks Spotify has quietly become a different kind of company.
The summer touring desk: a Chappelle arena run, a new Kansas City amphitheater, and Spotify quietly becomes a box office
A Sunday roundup of the live-business news that actually moved the week of June 1, drawn straight from the Live Nation and Ticketmaster newsrooms — five days that put a comedy heavyweight on sale, opened a 16,000-seat room outside Kansas City, and tied a Spotify listening history to a reserved ticket window.