How Spotify is finally gaining leverage over record labels

{rss:content:encoded} How Spotify is finally gaining leverage over record labels http://ift.tt/2nD9PVL http://ift.tt/2b7MeGl March 18, 2017 at 06:17PM  That’s why over the past few years, Spotify has been pushing five different paths to putting pressure on the labels to cut it a better royalties deal. They all hinge around the idea of making the labels need Spotify as much as it’s historically needed them. When Spotify launched in 2008, it had no power in the relationship since it had so few listeners. It needed to raise over… Read More