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On Thursday, UMG also announced a partnership with London-based Stability AI to develop music creation tools powered by AI for artists, producers and songwriters.

“We were all individually our own person. They had their music career, and I have my career as a songwriter,” she says.

The 25-year-old singer and songwriter scored a viral hit with ‘Sailor Song.’

Spotify has long been criticized by musicians, songwriters and artists’ rights groups, who have accused the company of paying a pittance to most of the working artists whose songs appear on its platform.

Spotify said it would make sure artists, songwriters and rights holders were "properly compensated for uses of their work and transparently credited for their contributions".