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Apple Music will now pay 10% higher royalties to artists for Spatial Audio music

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Apple Music now offers artists a financial incentive for making their music available in Spatial Audio, providing an immersive listening experience with compatible headphones. Apple will pay up to 10% more in royalties per play for tracks that have a spatial version. This bonus applies to the proportion of Spatial Available to Non-Spatial Available plays, incentivizing artists to offer their entire catalog in spatial audio. The move aims to further promote the adoption of Spatial Audio on Apple Music, which has already seen significant growth in user engagement.