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# TOO BIG TO FAIL? Spotify Payments Accelerate, $300 Million In Q1
- URL: https://www.hypebot.com/too-big-to-fail-spotify-payments-accelerate-top-300-million-in-q1/
- Published: 2015-06-05T11:55:00.000Z
- Updated: 2015-06-05T11:55:00.000Z
- Description: As the debate over payments rages on and rightsholders hold contract negotiations with Apple, Spotify and others, revenue from music streaming and thus its importance to the music industry continues to. Continue reading [https://www.hypebot.com/hypebot/2015/06/too-big-to-fail-spotify-payments-accel
- Author: Bruce Houghton
- Tags: Music Business, Streaming, Apple Inc., Billboard Magazine, Free music, Freemium, iTunes, music industry, New York, record label, Spotify, Streaming media, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-01-21 10:28

[![too big to fail](http://hypebot.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451b36c69e201b8d1228592970c-150wi "too big to fail")](http://hypebot.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451b36c69e201b8d1228592970c-popup?ref=hypebot.com)As the **debate over payments rages** on and rightsholders hold **contract negotiations** with **Apple, Spotify** and others, revenue from music streaming and thus its **importance to the music industry continues to grow** at an accelerated pace. Is music streaming, and in particular **Spotify, too big to fail?**

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Spotify paid $300 million to rights holders in the first quarter of 2015, according to a new report. Since launching in 2008, Spotify has paid a total of $3 billion in royalties.

If accurate, the $300 million, which were first reported by [Billboard](http://www.billboard.com/biz/articles/news/digital-and-mobile/6590043/spotify-royalties-grew-to-300-million-in-first-quarter?ref=hypebot.com), represent a rapid acceleration in payments and increase in Spotify's importance to the music industry.

At the end of 2013, Spotify announced that it had paid $1 billion to rightsholders five years after launch. 11 months later in November 2014, the music streamer said total payments had exceeded $2 billion. Now the 3rd billion in payments has come over just 2 quarters or just about 6 months.

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