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Spotify to axe 1,500 workers to save costs (www.bbc.com)
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[โ€“] raptir@lemdro.id 11 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Not really, they set a "minimum threshold" of unique annual listeners to get a payout. If a song has at least 1000 unique listeners per year it gets the same payout it did before. If it gets 999 it gets zero.

[โ€“] GissaMittJobb@lemmy.ml 1 points 11 months ago

It's 1000 playbacks, not 1000 unique listeners.