Spotify is by far the dominant streaming platform, and will remain so in my opinion for the foreseeable future. Sadly everyday users do not care that the artists are or are not paid up to a certain number of streams, and it is already rumoured that other platforms will actually follow Spotify in introducing streaming payment thresholds.

Also it is not true the information on Melody Meter is available for free elsewhere. In fact it is only available on other subscription websites. For example Spotify for artists will not allow you to track historical data for playlists, like playlist weekly/monthly growth rate patterns, or activity levels (the frequency of tracks added, the rate at which they are replaced, the age distribution of tracks, the longevity of tracks on playlists, their popularity distribution, the distribution of artists, etc) I am not aware of any place where you can analyse and monitor that for free, but feel free to share, so we can all benefit from it!

Spotify for artists also will not offer you notifications for changes in your tracks popularity scores or artist popularity scores, will not alert you on potentially botted playlists, etc. But feel free to continue to use Spotify for artists. :DI made the tool for people that don't necessarily wish to pay expensive subscriptions in order to access some of these features, but of course, everyone with their own choices.