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St Albans band The Pocket Gods will release ‘1000×30 – Nobody Makes Money Anymore’ next Friday to protest the streaming service’s model that means revenue is only activated after a song has been played for 30 seconds.

The group was inspired by an article published in the i by New York music professor Mike Errico, who questioned the future of the three-minute pop song. “I saw the article and it made me think, ‘Why write longer songs when we get paid little enough for just 30 seconds?’,” band frontman Mark Christopher Lee told i News. He said they earn around £0.002 from each Spotify stream, and said they were effectively “giving away” the extra two minutes and 30 seconds of a song for free. “We wrote and recorded 1,000 songs, each a shade over 30 seconds long for the album. The longest is 36 seconds,” Lee continued. “It is designed to raise awareness about the campaign for fair royalty rates.”