In September 2023, Deezer has announced that it was planning on removing more than 200 million songs from the platform. Deezer's intention here is, in their words, to “Declutter the platform”. Their main focus is on removing noise, mono-track albums, fake artists, and tracks that have not been listened to in the past 12 months.
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Alongside deleting releases, Deezer is following Spotify in its attempt to restructure how it pays artists.
Deezer will pay a double royalty to what they define as “professional artists” – those who have a minimum of 1,000 streams per month by a minimum of 500 unique listeners.
Deezer also applies this “double boost” for tracks from artists that fans have actively searched for.
Deezer have also implemented user-centric limitations, with a monthly monetization cap of 1000 streams per individual user. This means that only if a user listens to 1000 streams or less in a month will each of those streams be paid out in full. The more streams over 1000 a user makes in a month, the less each individual stream will be worth.