Spotify wants to see 1 billion people paying for streaming music, double the more than 500 million customers who currently subscribe to Spotify and its competitors. In Spotify’s view, artists are lucky to have streaming services, “each doing its part to normalize the behavior of paying for music.”
On Tuesday, the streaming giant announced that it paid out $10 billion to the music industry in 2024, with total contributions reaching almost $60 billion since its founding in 2006 — five…
