Survival of the fittest? I really don't have a problem with this. Artistry is hard - not everyone can make it. 1000 plays is a failure - financially. It probably costs Spotify more to payout the transaction for such a low amount of plays than the amount they are paying out.
This is a non-excuse. All the accounting is done through distribution partners, not to individual artists, and they have computers available to calculate numbers. They have been doing it until now just fine while making money. So have literally all the other streaming platforms.
Is a million times a thousand plays still nothing?
