We’re open to switching to a user-centric model if that’s what the industry wants. But we can’t make this change alone. It requires alignment across labels, publishers, distributors, and other streaming services.
The research suggests user-centric payments wouldn’t help most artists as much as people hope. A study from France’s National Music Centre found it would result in “at most a few euros per year on average” for artists outside the top 10,000. That research can be viewed here, and a useful summary of that research can be viewed here.