How much Spotify pays its artists 😬💰

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Have you ever wondered how much money Spotify pays out to musicians per stream? The money paid is surprisingly low, at only $0.004 per stream, which is less than a penny!

This means that you’d only be making $4 every 1,000 streams… when scaled the money does get better but it’s still really low, when considering that you’d only get $4,000 for a million streams.

The best route to go with is to upload your music on multiple platforms like Apple Music or Tidal, which will get you the most exposure. 📈

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[gabrielsalazar]

But think about it, there are hundreds of thousands of songs on Spotify and if it were higher that would cost a crap ton

[Whippies]

Artist don't just have 1 song, they have multiple

[alsknejt]

*1 billion views*
Youtube shorts: The best we can do is 3 bucks.

[weirdluck]

Spotify has thousands of artists and artist donations are also a thing so you really can't complain because of the cost

[vixinitywastaken]

Just play it on loop, turn the volume down, and get rich

[QVX_]

It’s pretty good tbh, considering some songs get literally millions of streams it makes sense

[scottb]

$4 per 1000 streams seems absurdly high

[rishi]

And when you're on a label earning is hard man independent artist do earn a lot these days more than signed dudes

[phased_d]

If they paid even one cent per stream theyd go broke the first day

[mixes]

so basically, the 500th most streamed song receives only 2.4 million usd despite having 600 million streams

edit: what i meant by only is that 2.4 million is not that much for the artist compared to the other source of income

[mAny_oThERSs]

Spotify already pays so much. 1 million views on a 10 minute video on youtube is only around 2k while 1 million streams on 2 minutes of music are 4k. That is massive.

[MHE-xplz]

I didn't even know they'd pay you at all 💀

[rGCSEinformed]

Artists don’t have only 1 song
They have tons
YouTubers don’t make enough from 1 vid
They make tons
Game devs don’t make 1 game
They make tons
1 song isn’t enough anyway

[computer]

I believe last time i checked you can't upload on Spotify for free, you need to pay about 20 $ to upload without any limit for a year and it works as subscription, so well...

[juliasssaccc]

1 million streams on spotify is 4000 dollars and let’s say 50mil (almost every popular songs) would be 200k dollars and normally artists have multiple songs, concerts and contracts with studios (and i’m failing math) 😍😍

[auzarchives]

Wait til people realize running a company costs money 😱

[QuickNap]

4$ for 1k streams isnt bad in my opinion. Like 1k is nothing and with fire songs you get your half a million streams quick

[sacyrus]

i mean shit that’s way more than I get payed through youtube

[tundralwhisper]

That also means if you get one song that really hits and gets a million streams a month, consistently, you can live off of just that song (assuming you live in a cheap apartment and don't go buying expensive stuff very often)... not horrible tbh.

[NoFlu]

If people hate it so much, they should just go buy the songs, even 1c per song is unsustainable.
9, 99 p.m. for premium
9, 99/30 (days in a month) = 0.333 cents per day => 33 songs per day
33 x 4 (length of a song) => 132 mins => Short of 2h15mins
That's with every month being 30 days and every song being 4 minutes which is generous.
Unless everbody is ready to cough up a shitton of cash for their music habbits, like back when CDs where the norm, paying fractions of a cent is the only way to keep it going, either that or limiting songs per month.