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The fact that Spotify’s average per-stream rates are lower than most of its rivals has been regularly used as a stick to beat the company with – despite its protests. Now the streaming service’s global head of marketing and policy, music business Sam Duboff has made the latest attempt to explain why Spotify sees this metric as bogus. “Spotify has one-third of global subscribers but drives two-thirds of total paid streams.

The big music services may be trying new ‘artist-centric’ ways of calculating their payouts, but there’s no change for the way things work for listeners: you pay your monthly subscription and get unlimited access to their entire catalogues. But could that system also be ripe for disruption? Midia Research boss Mark Mulligan thinks so, and has set out his vision of “a model for a new music streaming industry”