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Spotify also estimates that “in 2014, around 10,000 artists generated at least $10,000 per year on Spotify. Today, well over 10,000 artists generate over $100,000 per year from Spotify alone.”
Spotify's fourth annual report, which originally launched in 2021 following criticism over its lack of transparency, noted record accomplishments, including the highest annual payment from any ...
Spotify generally pays between $.003 and $.005 per stream, but how much you'll be paid differs based on your distribution contract.
Spotify, a music streaming company, has attracted significant criticism since its 2008 launch, [1] mainly over artist compensation. Unlike physical sales or downloads, which pay artists a fixed price per song or album sold, Spotify pays royalties based on the artist's "market share"—the number of streams for their songs as a proportion of total songs streamed on the service.
Spotify for Artists states that the company does not have a fixed per-play rate; instead, it considers factors such as the user's home country and the individual artist's royalty rate. Rights holders received an average per-play payout between $.000029 and $.0084. [172] In 2013, Spotify revealed that it paid artists an average of $0.007 per stream.
[a] Since 2012, Spotify has published a yearly list of its most-streamed artists, which has been topped by Drake and Puerto Rican rapper Bad Bunny a record three times, with Bad Bunny being the only artist to do so in consecutive years (2020–2022). Swift is the only female artist to have topped the list (2023–2024).
The company notes that 2023 was the highest amount indies have ever generated from a single retailer (i.e. Spotify) in one year, and that $4.5 billion is not only a four-times increase of what ...
About 100 artists gathered on the sidewalks of West Hollywood to protest what they see as streaming giant Spotify's miserly payments for songwriters.