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Re: Spotify Royalty Calculator

#11

I know Spotify divides all money between all artists, regardless of what user actually listened. It is one big pot for both sides. Is there a service with (in my view) more fair model, where my monthly subscription is divided only between artists I actually listened in a month?

One other thing Tidal offers is if you buy their highest tier plan $20/mo) they give $2 a month to your most listened to artist. Wish it was more given that the plan is twice the cost of the next plan, but the plan does include a bunch of other stuff.

Re: Spotify Royalty Calculator

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GOD, this is so wrong. The "calculator" doesn't take account of country of origin for the listener, if it's free or premium account, or any other amount of arbitrary measures that Spotify uses to calculate the average, which they even explain two paragraphs down:

>>"So, many factors that come into play and it’s impossible to guarantee how much you will make from your streams."

So what's the point of the calculator?

By the way Spotify earnings vary WILDLY month by month based on your listeners. Sometimes it's 0.00005€ per play and sometimes it's 100x that.

Source: I have about 400k+ plays on Spotify

Re: Spotify Royalty Calculator

#13
I used to run one of the biggest territories in the world for one of the biggest digital music distributors in the world.

This is a very blunt estimator based on questionable data and questionable assumptions about the listeners.

Re: Spotify Royalty Calculator

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post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I can't pinpoint where I got it from, it is kinda common knowledge (or so I thought). Seems that TIDAL is the good one. > TIDAL will be the first streaming service to pay artists with the money of subscribers who have actually listened to the artist. Other major music services such as Spotify and Apple Music now aggregate their users' money and give most of it to the artists with the greatest success. As a user, you…

Strange - normally you use pooling to even out the distribution, not to take from the poor to give to the rich.

Fair payouts empower independent labels, obviously biggest players in the music market are opposing it
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