Spotify shuts down ability for independent artistes to upload music directly

Some 120,000 songs from Indian artists and Hindi film soundtracks are about to disappear from Spotify due to failed negotiations with a major local record label. — dpa

LOS ANGELES: After less than a year, Spotify has decided shut down a test programme that let independent artistes upload their songs directly to the music-streaming giant. 

Instead, musicians – as they have had to do previously – will need to work with pre-approved distributor to get on-boarded to Spotify, if they’re not repped by a label.