How much Spotify paid me for 4 million streams vs Apple Music (BIG DIFFERENCE 🤯)

In this video I'll be comparing how much money ive made for 4 million streams on Apple Music and spotify

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Chapters:
0:00 Intro
0:32 How Much $ Per Stream
1:46 Best Way To Release Your Music
2:26 How much I got paid
3:46 Apple Music vs Spotify
6:00 What you should do

[mariamabass]

The list is not actually sorted from highest(best) pay per stream to lowest(worst) pay per stream; it appears to be in a random order. The correct order if organized from best pay per stream/streams to get 1k to worst pay per stream/streams to get to 1k would be:

1) Tidal
$0.013/76, 924
2) Apple Music
$0.01/100, 000
3) YouTube Music
$0.008/125, 000
4) Deezer
$0.0064/156, 250
5) Amazon Music
$0.004/250, 000
6) Spotify
$0.0033/303, 030
7) Pandora
$0.0013/769, 231

[chkodybeats]

I had a lofi beat blow up last year and it got 3.5 million streams and the thing I learned was yeah it is kind of crappy that spotify pays so little, but if you have a couple of beats that are performing decently well, that’s really the key to being a successful independent artist. It’s all about having a rich catalogue that has potential to be playlisted, even if most of them don’t get playlisted.

[GlitchxCity]

In my experience, Spotify just seems more accessible for people to use. Apple Music is fine but it still has that sense of "exclusivity" in the air which turns some users off. I guess it really depends on someone's music platform preference

[johnbenton]

This is the exact reason why I joined Apple Music from the jump gotta support artists in what ever way you can.

[chuckmakesbeats]

It's crazy how many streams you need for $1k. Music is really undervalued for indie artists.

[beepst]

Been using Apple Music for almost 2 years and haven't regretted it ever since.

[bobsnothereeither]

An important difference he showed us but didn’t mention was the charts. Spotify peaked the tailed off rapidly towards zero. Don’t expect much more cash to come from them. Apple is keeping pretty steady. There should be way more rolling in as we go on.

[crutec]

congrats on the morning brew shout out ! always appreciate a creator who sections off their ad reads, and this video was fascinating to watch. good job !!

[pee]

Personally I feel like artists should at least get a penny per stream. Especially independent artists. A percent of a penny is cruel.

[kirkstate]

True I need to promote other platforms, I usually mention Spotify when people ask me where to hear my music. Best money I’ve made from my music was people actually purchasing the downloads from Amazon

[seanhelligso]

Im not an artist but this is great insight. I think as consumers we start using the platforms that give back to the artists the most. Would you like to see more people using apple music?

[spcmttrs]

Great job man. Even if the payout is quite limited, you still have the talent to repeat the process over again and even triple that amount for several years. Props.

[Kooma]

On Spotify, it also depends where the people are listening your music: you can make $17K per 1M streams if the plays are coming from South Korea. On the other hand, if your streams are coming from Turkey, you only get about $600 per 1M streams.

[johnnybongo]

Digital music was encouraged by labels to regain control as far as the money. Years ago, too many folks were making a fortune selling their own music from the trunks of their cars and online, thus cutting the distributors and labels out completely. When music distributors and record store chains statred going bankrupt in the late 90's early 2000's, I saw where this was going then.

[chongillespie]

This was exactly why I moved from Spotify to Tidal. Props to big creators like yourself and Anthony Fantano for bringing this to people's attention

[digitalmedia]

Hey, L.Dre, another aspect of this conversation is also the quality of the streamed music. Spotify is just now catching up to #HiFi standards (CD-Quality) for Premium and that's pretty sad when Apple Music is at all the way up to #HiRes (24-bit up to 192KkHz with proper equipment) lossless at every level. Yeah, LoFi is cool, too, right. It just seems that features are one thing, and while part of the experience, but when is the younger Gen going to 'listen' to music rather than just 'hear' it? We deal with this in our various degree programs constantly and it must be a learned trait - this can greatly influence those paying for music and making their voice much more potent in ensuring artists get their portion, too. Just a thought :)

BTW, where did your get those nice Sound Treatment panels - dang nice.

[AlexanderXtcSlayin]

This is one of the most straight forward videos I’ve seen on YouTube. Thank you so much for not beating around the bush or dragging it out. Great info 🤙

[Tommy-tjtx]

bruhh been waiting for this Love you for being legit💖 much love from South sudan

[helloxonsfan]

Streaming platforms should definitely be paying the artists more, because without the artists those platforms literally have no product to profit from...!!! Great vid...!!! 👍

[phoneBBkeem]

You can actually upload your own playlists to Apple Music too. I think you do it through the music app