


The following month, he became the first artist across multiple platforms to reach over 50billion streams. In 2018, Drake broke multiple Spotify records with his album ‘Scorpion’, including for the most streams of an album in a single day (132million). HE keeps our royalties.” The following year, Spotify was accused of paying as little as £0.002 for each stream on its service. In response, Case wrote: “so fucking basic. In 2020, Neko Case, Nadine Shah, Jack Garratt and Zola Jesus were among the musicians to criticise Spotify CEO Daniel Ek after he said it “wasn’t enough” for artists to “record music once every three to four years”.
