Spotify gives less promo to Apple and Tidal exclusives
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Premiering an album exclusively on Apple Music or Tidal may come back to haunt artists once their music arrives on Spotify, as The New York Times reports. Spotify informed executives at two major labels that it has a new policy not to promote music as heavily or include it on as many playlists if it had previously enjoyed an exclusive deal with another streaming service, the executives told the Times. Spotify declined to comment on the report to the Times as well as to Pitchfork.
They wouldn't dare with someone like Rihanna who brings in SO many of the spotify streams. This will hurt smaller artists and those who already flop in the streams.
