Spotify closes its music upload service for independent artists

A while ago Spotify introduced a music upload service for independent artists. Although this service was launched only in the United States. In this way, they could upload their music directly, without intermediaries. But the platform now closes this option. No specific reasons have been given for the closure. The company says it wants to focus on other functions.

Spotify closes its music upload service for independent artists

It has been said that they prefer to focus on features and tools that are unique to their platform. A decision that has caught many by surprise.

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It seems that Spotify believes that music distribution is best managed by record labels or artists' rights holders. In this sense, although uploading their music on the platform was easy for artists, they were later forced to look for other distribution tools so that their music was also available on other platforms.

So this option was not something that was really helping artists too much, according to the Swedish streaming platform. Also, there could be another reason. The Swedish firm has recently invested in the DistroKid distribution service that enables cross-platform music distribution. It could have something to do with it.

So we'll see how Spotify plans to use DistroKid in the future. Because perhaps if they have this service, which allows music to be uploaded on different platforms, it will be easier for independent artists to have their music available online.

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