To begin to upend this disparity, we must amplify the work of women creators by extending our resources and generating more opportunities for these artists, which we’re doing by creating a global, cohesive, branded experience with the EQUAL Global Music Program.
Yet we know how integral women artists’ influence has been on Spotify and the music industry at large. Īccording to the USC Annenberg study funded by Spotify on representation of women in the music industry, only one in five artists on the charts are women. Today, we’re taking that promise one step further with the launch of our EQUAL Global Music Program. "Depending on the underlying facts of the situation, all of this may give rise to antitrust issues or even a possible class action lawsuit if it turns out to be true that this was done to restrict artists to only paying Spotify for advertising or if it is otherwise shown to be a ploy by Spotify to avoid accounting and paying royalties for the music of the independent artists using their Distrokid affiliate for distribution.This past March, in celebration of International Women’s Day, Spotify unveiled our new EQUAL hub -our most recent commitment to fostering equity for women in music globally. "Moreover, in 2018 Spotify acquired a stake in DistroKid. "It is worth nothing that each of the major record labels, Sony, Universal and Warner Music, have an equity stake in Spotify," said Wallace. Wallace claims the removal campaign appears to be "targeted at any independent artist who used a third party playlist or independent marketing service to promote their music – or any third party advertising outside of the Spotify platform" and did not affect any major artists. Spotify claims they did not target users employing DistroKid, though they did not elaborate what criteria they used to determine if an artist was inflating their streams. It appears no major label artists have been affected nor has any major label music been taken down as part of this purge." "Upon information and belief, some 750,000 songs were removed, the vast majority of which appear to have used Distrokid for distribution.
"It appears that on January 1, 2021, Spotify enacted a massive, global takedown of music from thousands of independent artists," said Wallace on his site.
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