Let's get straight to the point here.
Indie artists depend on Spotify for their traffic which is odd since it's an uphill battle for them to even get paid for the streams.
Here's an article published last December that explains WHAT they pay artist
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https://soundcloud.com/brant_music/where-the-light-comes-in-radio-edit
https://soundcloud.com/nostalgiumdirective/02-smoldering-amber