Instead, the streamshare system for working out the money owed relies on distributing specific proportions of Spotify’s revenue from subscription fees and advertising.įor each market, the streamshare is calculated by adding up the total number of streams in a month.Ī given rights holder’s total music streams are then divided by this overall total number to determine the streamshare. Spotify’s system of handing out royalties doesn’t work on an arbitrary set rate based purely on how many streams artists receive.
Now, that's not to say that calculating a pay-per-stream amount is a completely useless endeavour it can be useful to work out and look at these numbers as a guide to roughly how much money an artist earns (potentially) from a given number of streams.īut since there are so many factors that determine exactly how people listening translates to how much an artist makes on their songs, the actual amount artists are paid based on a single stream is highly variable.Īs such, most artists won't find an arbitrary pay-per-stream estimation a useful figure for working out their streaming income. It’s highly likely that you’ll have heard talk of how much Spotify ‘pays per stream’ - quite possibly alongside a critique of how low that amount appears to be.Īnd while headlines about fractional per-stream amounts are a good way to stir up public interest in how little artists are generally getting paid for their music on streaming services, the truth of how much artists are paid for their streams is slightly more complex than a given number.
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