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Originally Posted by troutman
An artist told me he had 13,000,000 plays of his song through a distributor on various social media platforms. He got a cheque for $7.
Artists are getting screwed.
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Spotify as an example pays around $4 for every 1000 streams, which is a 70(artist)/30(streaming service) split. It's not great, but that artist is likely full of ****.
For 13 million streams he'd get $52000. Now, yes that sucks for that many people streaming the artist. But if the artist you talked to got $7 then the actual issue is his distributer (or someone else along the line) straight up screwed him and took all his money. Nothing to do with streaming.