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Spotify claimed to be penalizing artists who have exclusive deals with Apple Music [updated]

Aug. 26, 2016 3:52 PM ETSpotify Technology S.A. (SPOT) StockAAPL, SPOTBy: Eric McCaffrey, SA News Editor46 Comments
  • Infringing artists' tracks are supposedly rendered more difficult to find on Spotify's (MUSIC) platform and are less likely to be included in featured playlists once they become available after first being released on Apple Music (AAPL -0.5%).
  • The practice has reportedly been ongoing for around a year with tracks by Tidal-exclusive artists seeing similar unfavorable consideration.
  • With increasingly unfriendly competition between the services (Spotify counts 30M users, Apple Music counts 15M), it remains of interest what the next round in the music-streaming battle will bring.
  • Update: Spotify has remarked on the Bloomberg report, declaring the claim certain artists' music is harder to find “unequivocally false”.

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