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A Timeline of the Music Industry’s Bundling Feud With Spotify (Updating)


Here's a timeline of the Spotify, music publishers and songwriters bundling feud.

Billboard estimated that this change will lead songwriters and publishers to earn about $150 million less in royalties for the first year bundling is in effect. Soon after, The Mechanical Licensing Collective (the MLC) retaliated with a lawsuit, saying that the premium tiers have been “improperly characterized” as bundles and that Spotify should revert to the previous rate structure. March marks the first month that Spotify accounted to pay a discounted “bundle” rate for premium, duo and family plans.

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