Are you saying you believe the issue is 1. that people listen to spotify 6/7/8+ hours a day, or 2. that people listen to those tracks specifically ?
If it's 2 then it makes no sense Spotify needs to pay either way, and if it's 1 then it makes no sense either, people didn't start listening to music in the background while working or studying or relaxing or cooking once white-noise-like feed appeared, they've been doing that since before I was born, so if spotify business model doesn't account for that model it is simply not viable.
From the article, it seems the issue is another thing entirely : people listen to that while sleeping, and that drives the value of advertisements down.
If it's 2 then it makes no sense Spotify needs to pay either way, and if it's 1 then it makes no sense either, people didn't start listening to music in the background while working or studying or relaxing or cooking once white-noise-like feed appeared, they've been doing that since before I was born, so if spotify business model doesn't account for that model it is simply not viable.
From the article, it seems the issue is another thing entirely : people listen to that while sleeping, and that drives the value of advertisements down.