Spotify blog:
Almost a year ago, we started to beta test a feature that lets independent artists upload their music directly to Spotify. Today, we notified participating artists about our decision to close the beta program, along with how we can help them migrate their music to other distributors over the next month.
And:
The most impactful way we can improve the experience of delivering music to Spotify for as many artists and labels as possible is to lean into the great work our distribution partners are already doing to serve the artist community.
That’s really a shame. Well, there’s always the Apple Music for Artists beta.
Translation:
Don’t think this is a very big deal unless for some strange reason you only want to upload to Spotify. Distributors like cdbaby, tunecore, distrokid, etc upload to all the services for a small fee or percentage. It might not be perfect, but they aren’t the record labels!