A Report by Dawoud Kringle
Spotify has augmented its corporate policy to avoid paying Artists. It has been bundling audiobooks with music by independent artists on Spotify, calling this a “discounted packet.”
In April 2024, Spotify announced that it now considers all its Premium plans ’bundles‘.
In October, Spotify started offering 15 hours worth of audiobooks with its Premium plans for free by ‘bundling’ access to audiobooks with its Premium services. Alongside its decision to classify its Premium music services as bundles, Spotify has also been making moves to offer different types of subscriptions focused on the various types of content it provides. One example is a $9.99 per month standalone audiobook tier in March in the US. On its Q1 earnings report on April 23, Spotify co-founder and CEO Daniel Ek confirmed that a new ‘music-only’ subscription tier is coming to the platform.
