My Band Has 1M Spotify Streams. Want to See Our Royalties? (2016)
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My Band Has 1M Spotify Streams. Want to See Our Royalties? (2016)
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Re: My Band Has 1M Spotify Streams. Want to See Our Royalties? (2016)
#2Can’t they sum their earnings? After reading the article, it’s unclear if they are complaining of msking too much ot too little.
Re: My Band Has 1M Spotify Streams. Want to See Our Royalties? (2016)
#3Can’t they sum their earnings? After reading the article, it’s unclear if they are complaining of msking too much ot too little.
They do sum it up. $5k for 1M streams. Which is reasonable or not compared to CDs depending on your assumptions. Let’s say a CD has ten tracks and the average buyer plays a CD five times. That’s fifty streams per buyer. One million streams yields twenty thousand CD buyers under this assumption. CDs are $10 (or were the last time I bought them ages ago). That means $200k gross, but the band would probably not see more than 20% of that at the most optimistic. Still, $5k is a lot less than $40k.
But if you double the number of plays a typical CD buyer would listen, and halve the band’s cut, you’re suddenly in the same neighborhood. You also have to factor in that many Spotify streams are not full track listens.
Re: My Band Has 1M Spotify Streams. Want to See Our Royalties? (2016)
#4Can’t they sum their earnings? After reading the article, it’s unclear if they are complaining of msking too much ot too little.
Total number of streams: 1,023,501
Total revenue: $4,955.90
Specific time period accounted: 10/15/2013 – 2/15/2013
Re: My Band Has 1M Spotify Streams. Want to See Our Royalties? (2016)
#5Can’t they sum their earnings? After reading the article, it’s unclear if they are complaining of msking too much ot too little.
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#6Can’t they sum their earnings? After reading the article, it’s unclear if they are complaining of msking too much ot too little.
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Re: My Band Has 1M Spotify Streams. Want to See Our Royalties? (2016)
#7How does this ($4990) compare to youtube's 1M views? Perhaps $500?
Re: My Band Has 1M Spotify Streams. Want to See Our Royalties? (2016)
#8People still seem to be stuck quantifying the value of music (sales, streams, etc) against a time when there was less saturation and the actual cost of producing, marketing and distributing music was much higher.
Re: My Band Has 1M Spotify Streams. Want to See Our Royalties? (2016)
#9Can’t they sum their earnings? After reading the article, it’s unclear if they are complaining of msking too much ot too little.
Total number of streams: 1,023,501
Total revenue: $4,955.90
Specific time period accounted: 10/15/2013 – 2/15/2013
(March, April, May periods not yet reported; estimated)
Average per-stream payout: $0.004891
They couldn't be any more explicit.
Re: My Band Has 1M Spotify Streams. Want to See Our Royalties? (2016)
#10How does this ($4990) compare to youtube's 1M views? Perhaps $500?
But YouTube, at least the popular video platform, is not meant for publishing songs and is doesn't claim that either.
Spotify's sole business is dependent on music and claims to be benefit artists.