How much Spotify paid me for 1.5 million streams (And how)

[@LDreTheGiant]

Tips and tricks are at the beginning but If you are only here for the exact number it's at 7:38 lol

[@けつを食べる]

What a legend

[@im432hz9]

Legend

[@darlyngton_nyc]

I skipped, then went back to the beginning🙂

[@blvcktanner4540]

Keep up the great music 🔥

[@lebronsinclair8012]

They need to pay artist more

[@Mys10c]

Glad I’ve contributed a cent or two to you, man! Keep making music!

[@LDreTheGiant]

Much love I appreciate you!

[@mattsmith3872]

You’d have to stream him 315 times in order to give him one cent😂😂 that blows my mind

[@ORDNRYKYLE]

Could you please give me a cent or two as well?

[@nonami_066xswqoqowiwl]

Ordinary Kyle Unpopular opinion :- Bring like 1000 cheap phones and download Spotify and play your song on repeat for the whole month ( you can try a higher price per play streaming service like tidal )

[@crossingn6451]

Matt Smith its sad

[@judsonl8990]

Him at 2:31: "I'm just a regular human, like you." Me looking down at his sweater: "..."

[@judsonl8990]

@MKD You make a solid point.

[@zbigniewkoszyrski3578]

*sweating intensifies*

[@JACK9ITE]

🤣

[@trkdarealest]

“I am a table”🤣

[@nenjidesu]

LMAOO

[@ekolbatx]

this song flops, this beat flops, this video flops - just keep going. love that.

[@Internet_Rex]

I get what ur trying to say but isn’t a flop mean like, fail?

[@eilifhjermannlindblad567]

@@Internet_Rex yeah lol

[@nagudagreat4702]

IG: _Calender Yeah he’s saying that even if your songs, beats, or videos flop (fail) initially, you should continue to put yourself out there and eventually you will make it.

[@thelasttimeishoweredwas4367]

Isn't flop bad

[@yungyola5331]

Go check out yung yola savage remix hottest shyt out na

[@atilla9460]

6:40 is why you are here

[@kairoder4849]

king

[@atilla9460]

hamundpom hehehe✌️

[@will_hunt_music]

God send

[@danielmeister6688]

not all heroes wear cape

[@lukej2383]

Nah, don't sleep on all the other information. Video is only 10 minutes long.

[@prod.nachohead7650]

i love how he always talks like his mom is sleeping in the next room

[@paradoxikalparalysis]

Bruh

[@yungyola5331]

@@paradoxikalparalysis 😂😂

[@yungyola5331]

@@paradoxikalparalysis go check out yung yola savage remix hottest shyt out na

[@ladydignity]

Lol

[@oladipupoaluko2543]

Lmao

[@sonixx.]

Congrats my guy for reaching 100k subs I knew you'd reach 100k this year. I'm a subscriber since 10k listening to fire beats now it's hotter since then.🙌🙌🙌

[@LDreTheGiant]

Yo that’s lit thank you !

[@edwardkalafat2750]

Net worth of Spotify CEO is $4.5 billion. He’s never written a song. Paul McCartney’s net worth is $1.28 billion You have done such amazing work with your music and marketing and this teaching tool for musicians is unprecedented!

[@remybuitenhuis2433]

That net worth has nothing to do with revenue.

[@amadeusoconnor7333]

I see you as someone who could really blow up. What you have that a lot of youtube producers don't is that you have a big following on a lot of social and streaming platforms. Not just one. And your content is so good. congrats on 100k.

[@LxftRxght]

You're such a humble dude and many blessings will come your way for sharing your knowledge and insight. Bless you, L. Dre - you're a legend already.

[@HYPEREX]

Came here to just see how much you made. Stayed and listened for how you made it. I can't thank you enough! I've never submitted songs to Spotify playlist cause I personally don't use them but in a couple minutes you showed me how important it really is and now I'm going to make it a regular habit! Thank You!

[@ampstudios]

I just recently put music out on DistroKid too, definitely been a fun ride so far, like you said just having music on the hard drive ain't doing it any good. Put it out there and don't worry about the numbers, they will show up eventually. It's a marathon not a sprint.

[@Da-Creams]

DHumphrey_AMP did you affiliate with a PRO and sound exchange first or just Distrokid?

[@prodbyconscious]

Needed to hear this

[@shanesmane]

Can’t wait for the day when these streaming services actually pay artists not low ball the hell out of them

[@m3kkanic]

Sorry for telling you, but that won't probably ever happen. If I'm not mistaken, the last quarter of 2019 was the first since Spotify hit the market where they did not make a lo$$. Their whole business concept is not working that well...

[@shanesmane]

mekkanic uhhh they just bought Joe Rogan Podcast for over $100 million so yeah I would say they are doing pretty good, if they have that much money to buy podcast then they have money to pay their artist and songwriters better

[@joshjames4556]

they have investors, they are investing in podcasts for the long term trying to beat apple. i pay 8 or 9 bucks a month for spotify and i stream probaby 3000-4000 songs a month (including repeats). thats about .003 cents i pay for each stream. now also realize they have massive overhead. office rent, employees, insurance, etc. there isnt much room for artists to get paid much more. back in the day when cds existed it was much easier to pay artists alot more. one cd sold 1 million copies each cd youll make 10 bucks per cd. thats 10 mil for 1 album, even if they sell only 10,000 cds thats still 100k. but things change. people dont want to spend hundreds of dollars on music. learn to adapt and make money via other avenues, brand parterships, launching a product, merch, make a course on music, sell your music online, etc.

[@777fiddlekrazy]

fer real tho! and many are MORE talented than the BIG INDUSTRY push!

[@bproducer]

The music industry has always been evil

[@nonperial7692]

That's one thing I am grateful of with Distrokid as long as you have streams from Spotify you will get paid for those streams. It may not be a lot. But you actually create a residual income. With the little I made I was able to get a better mic, better audio interface, portable midi controller, sound proof panels, lights, and some amazing headphones to hear multiple frequencies with. I plan to get really good monitor speakers next. I get to my growth with my music as well as my fans. Building brick by brick. We grow together HOORAH! Thanks for this video homie it was very insightful.

[@wildstuffvicky9528]

Bruh It doesn't matter how much you make u still gat to be greatfull 🙏🙏

[@nonperial7692]

@@wildstuffvicky9528 I totally agree because any income to help your growth is better than $0. 👍🏾💯

[@dfieldnocompany]

💯💯💯🔥

[@michaelvaleone]

Hope we all can make it as artist and producers

[@marwilliamson6996]

thank you and same

[@Jordan-ht6oo]

"keep going" is one of the most key advice u could say l.dre

[@brandonk.3155]

Don't let the low numbers discourage you. Great advice, especially in the beginning.

[@stevebarboza]

great video; the one key thing that stands out as most important in my eyes is 'the song has to be good' - that's pretty much key; if you don't have good content, people will catch on eventually lol; thanks for the advice on where to submit and about brand-building as well. Keep up the good work!

[@f4nT49u1T4r88]

So happy for you! I've been listening to your Chill beats album for almost 5 months now. One of my favorites 💖

[@draggabeats]

Great video. Appreciate the transparency.

[@LDreTheGiant]

🙏🏾🙏🏾

[@roedellsimmons9427]

Shout out to you L.Dre, man you keep it 100 and that is Gucci my brother. Keep doing what your doing.

[@sleepybeats6771]

Distrokid doesn’t take any of your profits UNLESS you live outside the USA, then up to 30% gone

[@Ruben-bl9ti]

unless tax treaty

[@derbossboss7912]

really? i live in germany and didnt know that. how can i find out how much DistroKid takes?

[@kennyguzman5470]

@@derbossboss7912 kzbin.info/www/bejne/i4ucgWtmjbV8jbs

[@JackTheStrippa]

Its not their job to take your tax do thats b.s

[@ROJORMG]

Yeah but it's illegal ---> kzbin.info/www/bejne/i4ucgWtmjbV8jbs

[@ToddBangz]

Great information L.Dre that was good to know.

[@IamMooyou]

🤘🌞😎 Namaste kzbin.info/www/bejne/n3yviottr9Bpn80

[@superficialnonsense4555]

Favorite thing that stood out when I came across the first video of you was it isn't misleading bs. Really appreciate that man.

[@dozhadeville444]

Yea this is the game now! Its like $250k for 100M streams! But u had good numbers back then. Two paths to make good money: 1) Put out tons of projects 2) Drop a couple real HIT records

[@gdubs8981]

congrats on the success bro! its good to hear that hard works pays off. thank you for the game

[@Rizzlyricist]

@L.Dre congrats big bro 🔥

[@pablo_emilio_escobar9254]

just realised that Luis Fonsi made 4.2 Million Dollars with Despacito on spotify. what…

[@chrisgalactic]

Wow! Amazing information. Honestly brother huge info

[@IamMooyou]

😎 Namaste kzbin.info/www/bejne/n3yviottr9Bpn80

[@markmccann1]

Criminal how you get paid so little for millions of streams.

[@CRYPTOMIND_101]

Its 1.5 M not milltions

[@lukeabram]

Well done video man! The only thing I have against DistroKid is that they force you to pay for the rest of your life and if you cancel they take down your music. And beyond that I just really hate subscriptions and would rather pay one time. But great video! Great quality. You're living the music producer's dream!

[@LDreTheGiant]

Thank you man! I feel that but I feel these days you really have to release a lot of music to succeed so $20 or $35 a year for an unlimited amount of songs is really worth it for me. By the time I may want to switch or for whatever reason I want to stop using Distrokid I could always use their "Leave a legacy feature" or just migrate to a different service.

[@lukeabram]

@@LDreTheGiant Their Leave a Legacy feature only makes it so that once you die your music stays up. But I do see the value of unlimited releases.

[@esspecial55]

Blessings to you bro...most established artiste don't break down things like this,the universe gonna reward u bro

[@user-hg7vr6uy3b]

4K isn’t a lot considering you had MILLIONS of streams. Streaming is daily light robbery for artists.

[@NyFloridaMan]

Performances make the most money

[@lunai3225]

subbed after seeing this video, pretty straight forward and informative, great content man

[@LDreTheGiant]

Much love welcome to the club 🙏🏾

[@carsandguitarss]

to many people are making to much music pushing the price and quality down, i pay musicians to play on my music. 40,000 tracks a day uploaded to spotify you be lucky to get heard at all.

[@JBColourisation]

Hi! This video not only introduced me to your channel but also your music, keep up the good work! :)

[@LDreTheGiant]

Thank you and welcome 🙏🏾

[@kaidoChess]

This is such a fantastic video. I got more info from you in 20 seconds then most other people give in an hour. Thanks for the tips man 🔥🎧

[@paulavish5482]

You're sweet and humble, bro.

[@LDreTheGiant]

Thank you 🙏🏾

[@savstacksbread]

ik im 2 yrs late but bro then tips in the beginning was really helpful to me . you basically taught me other ways to help my music reach people and to help hype it up , i appreciate that bro fr

[@somethingdifferent4u247]

I appreciate you posting this video - thank you 👍😊

[@Chidulo]

That sucks yo $4K is so little considering how much they make.

[@Carstuff101]

That's because it's distrokid, maybe Tunecore, cdbaby, one rpm or awal would pay the artist a higher amount

[@unkownk4464]

Dance & Freestyle Hits lol that makes no sense distrokid doesnt take a percentage unless its for youtube and its only like 10%

[@Carstuff101]

@@unkownk4464 each distributor has made deals with spotify on how much is the minimum rate. Large companies like universal and cobalt and sony music all get higher rates than the rest of us. Awal and One Rpm receive higher rates than distrokid and cd baby and the others.

[@Mauuuurice]

It seems like Spotify is doing well, but they weren't able to be profitable since founded. They made bad deals with major labels and are now trying to make money with podcasts. But yeah for musicians (I am one, too) it's really hard to earn some money with streaming, especially if you're only known in a smaller niche.

[@nonami_066xswqoqowiwl]

Opioid Platinum Tunecore is better though because you can directly bank transfer , With Distrokid you gotta transfer to paypal and they take like 2.9% or somethin

[@CEdwards2k7]

This has been insightful and encouraging. Thanks for the information and transparency. ✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾

[@LDreTheGiant]

🙏🏾🙏🏾

[@mikkaheino6009]

6:40 is when he actually starts talking about his money from streams

[@RappingManualYT]

This was so informative! Thank you

[@riddellthomas2185]

I really think artists need to stop putting music on any of these platforms.. they really are ripping artists off. They are giving artists more than other streaming platforms and it seems people are just grateful for the pretence they are receiving.. throughout the history of music it's been a case of artists being ripped off and now it's been taken even further.. thanks for showing us the earnings from your songs ✌

[@rajs4012]

Would KZbin be better? What other option do we have?

[@SS-ci8yk]

@@rajs4012 fr

[@damilosky]

The advice before the main reason for this video is GOLD!! Thanks for sharing man.

[@brianwredfern]

Before the internet my old band used to make that much selling 100 tapes a year at shows

[@annagraceodom5352]

as someone who had never heard of your music before, when you said Shibuya, i immediatly thought of FO and now i'm obsessed with your chanel remix!! keep up the good stuff. i'm here for it

[@annagraceodom5352]

wish you could put it on spotify tho

[@rodneysean]

Thanks for the video man very inspiring and motivating for a fellow artist - SUBBED !

[@LDreTheGiant]

Thank you !!

[@RaceClistonRacebizzy]

Good looking out on the info homie 💯💯💯

[@TheeAgris]

Somehow when I was uploading to Spotify (and I was making trap) they added me to Lo-Fi Beats editorial playlist, only now im staring to realize how big of a deal that was and starting to focus on lofi beats lol I had no idea about them before..:))

[@precisionsoundworksstudio]

Great vid! Thank you for posting!

[@hectorrubio5346]

just like alot of things, it's a numbers game. Just gotta keep playing, keep it up bro. You deserve more

[@damonjvr4435]

Great tips, this reminds me of my favorite quote "Luck favors the prepared" while going viral is lucky you set yourself up to get lucky! Thanks for all of this info

[@skullybone7206]

FYI, distrokid is pretty shady, would avoid

[@m.o.bwaddup]

Howcome?

[@beatsby_simo]

Why u say that?

[@yaywe7758]

Its because if you live outside the U.S they take 30% for the IRS taxes

[@richardlangly4635]

@@yaywe7758 If your country has a tax treaty with the US, though, you can get that money back.

[@prod.barneycoleman2913]

Count Zero Records fr? So I basically gotta reupload everything?

[@comecreatewithillbadaa5767]

Subbed man. Will def be following your movement

[@avishek70295]

*I'm just a regular human* Wears *iam a table* hoodie that cracked me up Love your work do your thing!!!!! lots of love!

[@daphantom6813]

U killed it ma G respect for the knowledge🙏🏽💯

[@FRNKNSTNmusic]

“If sitting on my hard drive it’d be making nothing at all.”

[@Stagmoth]

Hey, this was really encouraging. Thanks bro.

[@thokozanidlalisa3640]

Thanks man! That was really helpful 💯%

[@ilizwipoetry8107]

Dude, be careful of your sponsor. They're transaction policy is convoluted and unreliable. Please research their practises and complaints about them before promoting them...

[@Mattrixx]

This was posted a month ago before they were exposed 👀

[@BALTAOFC]

Mattrixx whats this I’m not knowing

[@djsvideodiarys]

@@Mattrixx yeah fill us in

[@djsvideodiarys]

Can u fill us in

[@ynpavo]

@@djsvideodiarys just look up any reviews on Distrokid on youtube, comments are filled with people who was scammed for thousands of dollars or their account being deleted for no reason

[@7thheaven-finalfantasy-hip717]

i love your honesty.

[@texjohnson9208]

$4,300 for 1.5 million streams sounds cool, but remember this income is usually split between artists, producer and label. Guess how much you would have earned back in the day via iTunes and other digital download websites at 70% of $0.99 per download?.....You would have earned about $1,050,000.00 ($1 Million and Fifty Thousand Dollars)!

[@MBTIMemes]

grow up boomer as if 1 million streams in any way would equal 1 million songs sold on iTunes lmao

[@texjohnson9208]

@@MBTIMemes Why don't you go take a 99.9% cut in wages and go work for $0.0043 cents an hour.....FOOL!

[@eddyc7500]

@@texjohnson9208 tex thats what i also thought about , frank ocean and the label etc have royalties or no ? so they also get paid , so its not 4300 ? or did they already split . i dont think he made the track with frank ocean so worst case he wouldnt get any money of it right

[@texjohnson9208]

@@eddyc7500 To be a little more specific Eddy.......The $4,300 Spotify would pay on 1 million streams (Based on $0.0043 per stream) is paid to the Master Rightsholder (Label/Artist/Producer) = 80%. The other 20% (About $860) is paid for Mechanical and Performance royalties. This is split between Publisher/Songwriter/Composer. This is just the very basic way streaming royalties are structured as far as payouts from Streaming Company to Rightsholder/Artist and Publisher/Songwriter

[@eddyc7500]

@@texjohnson9208 thx . ye i kinda feel there is also coming issues with the system of the internet / stream industry , not evrytime and not for all but if u talk about algorythm and placements and pressure that u also wanna hit another top song idk hope evry artist just keep love making there own music wich is authentic . idk if you kinda understand what im tryn to say :D my english is pretty bad. but thanks for the answer tex

[@deejman]

Bringing crazy value in one vid, thank you so much

[@Sebastianoe]

Thank you man , It really helps me a lot !!!🙌🏼

[@BoostCollective]

Amazing video L.Dre! Always so much value!

[@sainthills]

Thanks for sharing this info, man!

[@indianniejones5]

CONGRATS ON 100k!

[@Rdprominent]

Appreciate the support

[@uniworkhorse]

Yo this the dude who taught me how to make lofi on iOS nice!

[@TAFRESHII]

subbed just bc I fw who you are, thank you for the positive affirmations

[@mastertrey4683]

If you do a million spotify streams a month you'll get 30-40k a year off of just spotify streams

[@christopheboucher3737]

How many artists can boast 12 million streams in a year tho?

[@remybuitenhuis2433]

@@christopheboucher3737 not many. my brother is very talented and gets 30 streams a weak.

[@khailz]

Yes sir best way just got to keep working putting music out #new #artist #spotify

[@perry8841]

I want your hoodie. I'm a table too

[@LDreTheGiant]

www.iamatable.co 👌🏾

[@OhThatsLionHeart]

Thank you bro. I needed this today.

[@tenmusicpage]

Spotify is screwing us 🤦🏾‍♀️

[@user-hg7vr6uy3b]

Imagine being happy with 4K after a MILLION streams 👀

[@tenmusicpage]

@@user-hg7vr6uy3b could never imagine that smh 🤦🏾‍♀️

[@nato2panama]

Thanks a lot. You really give some useful tips. Much appreciated.

[@Theshortshowpodcast]

Thanks needed this 💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯

[@LilyerT]

Need them tidal streams . They pay around 10k per million streams !!!

[@barelyafk]

nope.

[@calowenmusic]

Super informative! Thank you

[@joecoofmadethis]

Thanks bro. Keep up the great work. Giving this type of knowledge out is a blessing.

[@OZKÄRSTALIN]

Thank you brother for the info!! The best for you man!!!

[@isthismarvin]

8:53 Thank me Later

[@epicwork5970]

Can i thank you now?

[@isthismarvin]

epic work - Only if your cat loves you

[@jxsh9853]

no, thats for a smaller song. the $ from 1.5m streams is at 7:38

[@cadencrawford4599]

Thank u

[@cadencrawford4599]

@@jxsh9853 thank u

[@djbouzy]

yooo thank you for this bro, came for the title/numbers, stayed for the personality man got u a new sub :))

[@charlsisabrat]

Just submitted!! Great contents 👌🏻

[@joeyhendrickson]

$4,345 for 1.5M plays is junk. Imagine if that single was downloaded for $1 like it used to be. Better strategy to control content is needed.

[@lilh9984]

Wow 😳 Amazingly valuable content. I'm glad you explained all of that at the beginning. I can't wait to learn more from you! 🧡❤️💛✌🏻

[@IamMooyou]

💯💯💯👍 Namaste kzbin.info/www/bejne/n3yviottr9Bpn80

[@mcvmarie]

I appreciate your vibe, and content. Thanks for sharing all the helpful tips and info!

[@El3M3NTxRxFxSx]

Y'all voted to look at the bank account and not how it got there... Take this L.

[@nathansenchi]

Thanks for your tips and tricks bro.. Helpfull

[@mikaludwig5424]

Bro tbh you are definitely the GOAT of lofi music 👻.. keep going on like this buddy .. I enjoy everything you post and will support you because you help me a lot🤞

[@crazy09stuntman]

Dope! Thanks for the info 💯

[@SpaceAgente]

Super helpful stuff... Thanks again

[@RapPhilosophy]

How do rappers make any kind of real money like this.

[@yvngblackboi6230]

They make most of their money going on tour

[@BradDollar]

Thanks for sharing this!

[@justin5033]

Wow so someone could work for 2 months at McDonald's and make that same money Sad that creativity doesn't neccesarily equal money Now if youre super passionate about it and you wanna always do it and dedicate everything to it then it wouldn't feel like work and you could probably just keep going But yeah

[@Caspiankhw]

Thanks for sharing this information, super interesting! Your voice is extra chill, thumbs up!

[@rm.3477]

mans just bashing lofi for 10 minutes lmao

[@PRINCEAUSTIN]

Great video Dre🙏🏽