Spotify Artist Payments

Currently, each played song will earn a fraction of a cent/penny to an artist (around 0.4 to 0.8 cent)[1].If you played a single song during the month. That artist would only get that fractional cent. The remaining of your monthly fee will go to other artists you have never played and may have no interest financing.Most will be the popular artists du jour pushed by the records labels. They like the current system because -by definition- popular songs will be played a lot, probably in

Doesn't spotify already distribute your subscription money to artists, based on your listens?

Something a lot of people don't seem to know about spotify is that artists are compensated based on their position in the charts, not based directly on how many times their song was played.So if you only listen to obscure folk music, most (possibly all) of the $10 you're paying goes to artists you don't listen to. That's why some indie artists say they prefer piracy to spotify, it's almost the same to them.

The problem is your $10 isn't split among artists you listen to. Your $10 is tossed into a pool with all the other $10s and split depending on deals made with Spotify, not based on listening. That means the vast majority goes to the most popular artists' labels, many (maybe most) you never listened to. Most artists make pennies at best because already successful artists have labels that negotiate better per-stream rates. And they still see very little of it once everyone after Spotify

Spotify pays based on popularity not streams. This means people who exclusively listen to one genre of music might have little or none of their money go to the artists they like.Streaming could be good but as it is it's just piracy without the RIAA fighting it.

AFAIK Spotify doesn't pay per stream. They pay a percentage of revenue to artists that is divided based on streams of their music. Record companies and big artists negotiate these deals with Spotify. It seems like artists should be more angry with their labels about the deals that are negotiated than mad at Spotify.

Spotify keeps approximately 30% of subscription and ad revenues.The remaining approximately 70% goes into one big pool.That pool is distributed based on share of total streams.So if there are 1 trillion streams total and an artist gets 1 billion of them, they get 0.1% of the entire payout pool.You are not paid by your listeners — you are paid in proportion to everyone else’s listening.So if you pay $10/month and listens only to niche artists:- your money stil

Lets say you pay 10$ for Spotify and you only listen to my music for a whole month then Rihanna, Lady Gaga and Beyonce will get 99.999999% of your 10$. Its because all the money, be it advertisement or subscriptions is thrown in a huge bucket and divided by play count. It will take you a looooong loooong time to get even one single dollar out of this model.

No, you pay Spotify, and then Spotify pays artists per stream they received. “Your” money goes in to a pool at Spotify where it can’t really be traced further.If you listen to more music than the average listener, those artists get paid out more than what you put in, and if you listen to less, they get less. But on average it all levels out anyway.Unless people who listen to a particular artist on average stream less music entirely. Which doesn’t seem to be the case.

There has to be a cross-user dependency.There are 3 ways you can go about paying artists.Way 1 is to say that x% of what you pay goes to the artists and that the streaming service takes the rest, no matter how many songs you play.This makes no sense; this would cause a Taylor Swift fan that listens to her for hours on end, but also listens to other music sometimes, to pay less to Swift than somebody who just plays one Swift song per month and nothing else.Way 2 is to pay a set amount