As Market Cheers Spotify’s Direct Deals With Artists and Managers, Labels Mull Their Options | Billboard

Over the past year, sources say, Spotify has been offering to pay a number of artist-management firms several-hundred-thousand-dollar advances in exchange for licensing their acts’ music directly to its streaming services.
— Read on www.billboard.com/articles/business/8461162/spotify-direct-deals-artists-managers-labels-options