Artists paying to be found on Spotify

There are around 40,000 songs added to Spotify each day, so most of the music uploaded there and other streaming services every day sinks without a trace - Rolling Stone says in a great article about new artists trying to reach out to the audience. There is a way to reach them, in certain numbers, for money - for $250 an artist will be placed on playlists with a total of 50,000 followers, while $4,000 promises a playlist reach of one million, and around half a million streams.