Miller’s goal is to one day have her music become her full-time job.
“If your streams plateau, if people aren’t listening to it as much anymore, you’re not going to get paid anymore.” “You have to have an enormous amount of streams to even make minimum wage,” Miller says. Her single “Peach Lemonade” gained nearly 14,000 in the first few weeks of its release, but her paycheck was barely $5. Mackenzie Miller is a 22-year-old singer based in Seattle. The average artist pay rate declined 43% over two years. The Union of Musicians and Allied Workers found artists were paid an average of just over half a cent per stream in 2018 and under a third of a cent in 2020. "Every month, in each country we operate in, we calculate streamshare by adding up how many times music owned or controlled by a particular rights holder was streamed and dividing it by the total number of streams in that market," Spotify reports. The streaming service does not pay per stream, instead using a system that pays artists based on "streamshare." This payment could vary depending on how music is streamed or agreements with licensors, Spotify says. How much does Spotify pay per stream?Ī Business Insider report from 2020 found artists earn as little as $0.0033 per stream. But for musicians, the most popular streaming platform in the world is an important part of making a career in music.Īccording to Spotify, over 28% of artists who earned over $10,000 from Spotify in 20 were self-distributed. The streaming platform estimates there are about 65,000 artists that have released at least ten songs and have at least 10,000 monthly listeners on Spotify. You may know Spotify for its end of the year "Spotify Wrapped" personal music stats or from stalking your friends' listening activity on the desktop app.
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