How long for invitation to music beta

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Spotify launches its live audio app and Clubhouse rival, Spotify Greenroom. We use cookies and other tracking technologies to improve your browsing experience on our site, show personalized content and targeted ads, analyze site traffic, and understand where our audiences come from. To learn more or opt-out, read our Cookie Policy. Spotify has announced a new beta feature that will allow independent artists to upload their music directly to the platform instead of through a label or digital aggregator.

Instead, Spotify views it as a way for artists to have control over their own music in advance of its release date. Direct upload is being offered as a free service. They will be able to view all of that information and check all their data within Spotify for Artists.

When asked when it will be open to all artists, Anoliefo says the company is still learning what artists want from the feature. Our plan is to first focus on learning from the artists, get their feedback, and then make future plans about how it will become available to more artists.

Should Spotify eventually roll this out as a public feature, it could have a great impact on the indie music market, which has been burgeoning in the public eye, arguably since Chance the Rapper gave a shoutout to SoundCloud at the Grammys.

Spotify is the biggest music subscription platform in the market, reporting 83 million paid subscribers as of July and a total base of around double that when including free accounts. Subscribe to get the best Verge-approved tech deals of the week.