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"Spotify has claimed that music streaming royalty payouts between record labels and artists are currently &amp;quot;all over the place&amp;quot;.  The company&amp;#039;s chief content officer and US MD Ken Parks said Spotify treats major and indie labels equally in terms of payouts from the service, but explained the amount labels pay the artist is &amp;quot;radically different&amp;quot; across the industry.   &amp;quot;We don&amp;#039;t want any artist who&amp;#039;s signed to label x to feel cheated because they&amp;#039;re getting paid less for exploitation on Spotify,&amp;quot; Parks told Billboard. &amp;quot;What that artist&amp;#039;s deal is with that label is a different matter. But in terms of how we treat those payouts? We feel they should be the same.  &amp;quot;We don&amp;#039;t really know too much about individual contracts, but from what we know [label streaming payouts to artists] are kind of all over the place. That I think is not sustainable long term.&amp;quot; He added that &amp;quot;advantages shouldn&amp;#039;t be gained on any side based on how smart your lawyer was&amp;quot;, adding that it&amp;#039;s &amp;quot;a fact of business life that that oftentimes is the case, but that probably shouldn&amp;#039;t be these radical differences between payouts from Beggars Group for instance or label x&amp;quot;. &amp;quot;We don&amp;#039;t think that&amp;#039;s a great thing either,&amp;quot; he concluded. Meanwhile, Spotify recently announced that Rihanna is the most-streamed female artist on the service. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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