Thursday, February 9, 2012

Music Streaming: How are the artists paid?

I came across an great article that talks about the many different music streaming sites that are primarily free and how popular they have become. David Harrell breaks down probably the most popular streaming site, Spotify. It is almost scary how small the payout is per play for the artists.

Spotify Per-Stream Payouts August 2009 to March 2011

Smallest: 0.02056 cents
Largest: 1.1456 cents
Average: 0.2865 cents

That means that it would take an artist, on average, 244 plays on Spotify to equal the cut they receive from a .99 ITunes download. Crazy to think about huh?

To read the whole article check it out here
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2 comments:

  1. laura alsobrookFebruary 9, 2012 at 9:20 AM

    That is crazy...... I would have thought it would have been a lot more money than that.

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  2. Kenzie HeidelbergFebruary 9, 2012 at 9:28 AM

    Wow, that's shocking! Honestly, haven't used Spotify though.... don't know too much about it.

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