Spotify confirms it won't offer payouts for songs with fewer than 1,000 plays

Spotify has officially unveiled its new streaming payment policy for artists and labels, and the details are pretty much exactly what has been reported for weeks. In other words, smaller artists are getting something of a shaft here, as songs that don't meet the minimum threshold of 1,000 streams per year will not be eligible for any payment whatsoever. Spotify was already notorious for underpaying artists, but now many will get nothing at all, aside from the opportunity and privilege to exist o...