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In May of 2016, Warner Music Group CEO Stephen Cooper confirmed that Spotify and other streaming services, instead of paying for airtime, labels are paying for spots on a popular playlist. Labels can pay anywhere from $2,000 for a playlist with tens of thousands of fans,” up to “$10,000 for the more well-followed playlists.” Payola is the practice of giving undisclosed payments to include in broadcast programs. The practice was made illegal on February 11, 1960. Paying to include content on playlists is not illegal according to [[Title 47 of the United States Code] because spotify is streaming and not over broadband. Spotify has changed it's user terms and agreements to state "selling a user account or playlist, or otherwise accepting any compensation, financial or otherwise, to influence the name of an account or playlist or the content included on an account or playlist."