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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[@gabrielsalazar3985]

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

[@faaresq-moneytips]

That's completely true but it really does suck for the artists

[@holidayfartcruise1328]

If they weren't making money, spotify wouldn't be a company. They are stealing money from artists by paying so little and adding it to their own profit margins

[@harveyf9169]

@@faaresq-moneytips yes

[@levistepanian5341]

The issue with paying more is that Spotify will have to charge more for premium and play 10 times the ads, that can’t work unfortunately

[@Blue-gj9cq]

​@TintiKili that's because consumers believe in apple more so than spotify

[@Whippies]

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

[@animelxgendz5583]

An artist is suppose to draw or paint I wouldn't call singers or rappers an artist

[@legoblinking1981]

@@animelxgendz5583 💀

[@nocque4334]

@@animelxgendz5583 music is also a form of art

[@kovacevicjosip1387]

​@@animelxgendz5583I mean everyone calls them artists because music is a form or art

[@atari5500]

​​@@animelxgendz5583 there are many different forms of art. Art isn't any one physical thing, it's an idea. Art is the representation of one's feelings. There is no true way to classify art as it is so different to so many people. You can express emotions and feelings on a canvas, through a set of lyrics, dance, sculptures- hell even a bedroom design could be considered art. As long as it means something to the creator- the artist- that is when we can truly appreciate the creative values people put into their own work.

[@alsknejt]

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

[@swarmeddan1836]

KZbin videos: congratulations! You're a millionaire

[@Ben-tg6mr]

that's TikTok ur talking about KZbin shorts actually pays

[@bucko0627]

LMAO

[@bucko0627]

@@Ben-tg6mr not much compared to regular videos.

[@Ben-tg6mr]

@@bucko0627 yeah I know

[@weirdluck3312]

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

[@orestisgeorgatos6725]

also storing HD songs is insanely expensive

[@averytrashmouth]

​@orestisgeorgatos6725 good thing spotify uses a lossy compression method to make their songs sound like crap.

[@orestisgeorgatos6725]

@@averytrashmouth what? since when

[@averytrashmouth]

@@orestisgeorgatos6725 since forever? They have an equivalent bit rate of an MP3 file.

[@orestisgeorgatos6725]

@@averytrashmouth do you not have the high quality setting on?

[@Vixinity82]

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

[@sebastiantveito4854]

the worst thing is that this actually works

[@turkiyemshooter294]

And make wide eyes once you see your electricity bill

[@TeraChad23]

Actually, someone made a playlist full of plain old silence and told everyone to play it on loop as they sleep, and they got tons of money until Spotify shut it down

[@cedricdavis513]

​@@turkiyemshooter294Its like an extra 70 cents a month bro

[@dustux]

​@@TeraChad23 10000000 iQ move

[@QVX_]

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

[@yoshi-cs6ib]

Those are often the ones that already make a pretty penny and if you're signed to a label, they also take their cut. Furthermore the pay per stream has been steadily declining over the years and that's without inflation taken into account. It's not entirely Spotify's fault (altho they are definitely guilty of some very shady backdoor agreements with big labels) - the streaming model just isn't all that sustainable at the end of the day and tidal and whatnot aren't paying that much more.

[@rishi4875]

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

[@spliish]

whys that?

[@rstresarintosv5949]

@@spliish because labels want to fuck you , the percentage cuts of labels shaft artists should stay independent all the way or at least if a big label comes in with a big deal

[@aden3973]

Label fronts you money and take back with interested

[@rstresarintosv5949]

@@aden3973 how does a label actually work though do they basically give u say for example £250,000 and say go invest this into music , so for a song an album music videos and the rest of it and u pay them back once u make more than 250k back , or what if u did actually try to invest the money into music but u just didn’t make it

[@christianjayjay]

@@rstresarintosv5949 "Labels want to fuck you."

[@scottb9997]

$4 per 1000 streams seems absurdly high

[@zestywolf2489]

was bouta comment this too

[@scottb9997]

@@zestywolf2489 I think the old youtube formula from 2015 was approx 97c per thousand views or upto $1.90 for targeted ads

[@piyushmaurya253]

.004 per stream is literally $4 per 1000 stream

[@stefyy7474]

@@piyushmaurya253 smh

[@dudopa]

fascist moment

[@phased_d7171]

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

[@Kumishiku999]

Nah thousands pay 15+ for premium

[@caseymudkip]

@@Kumishiku999 Spotify barely makes any money as it is lol.

[@John_Marston_Rip_Van_Winkle]

Bruh there are about 100mil songs on Spotify so that multiplied by 0.004 equals 400k Spotify can't get broke the first day

[@Reaper_681]

Despacito with 8B views:

[@thomasjawel]

Views? On Spotify?

[@SubStatsOffical]

Nah they got 4M dollars for it on Spotify lmao

[@ultrae]

on youtube

[@captainvenom7252]

16k USD

[@CoolGuyArihant]

More like Blinding Lights with 3.4B streams:

[@MHE-xp7lz]

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

[@norrin8441]

That's probably one of the reasons spotify still exists along with premium, no artist is going to upload their song for free so they made the smallest possible payment to make sure they don't get sued. Also, there are ads too

[@yogerrry]

You thought music companies put music on it for free?

[@Oldaccount9054]

I personally used to believe they didn’t pay artist either I thought you only got paid if your fans buy your music from Spotify didn’t know you get paid like KZbin if they listen to it back in 2020

[@k.a.8725]

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.

[@rGCSEinformed]

Artists don’t have only 1 song They have tons KZbinrs 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

[@anime_editor3383]

Game devs can make 1 game and be famous

[@rGCSEinformed]

@@anime_editor3383 only if they do amazing and after a while they won’t be able to Take gta GTA 1-4 made money but not enough GTA 5 made tons but it won’t last forever, gta 5 will stop making money

[@Lowtap.]

@@rGCSEinformed terrarria

[@rGCSEinformed]

@@Lowtap. yes There are some exceptions such as Rick Ashley’s “never gonna give u up” but 99% of the time

[@sacyrus]

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

[@Bleak1302]

You cant expect to make money with only 6k subscribers

[@computer9483]

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...

[@flaryx32]

You have to use a distributor right?

[@computer9483]

@@flaryx32 Yes and for obvious reasons you have to pay. It's affordable, yet to get back what you spend might take way more time.

[@flaryx32]

@@computer9483 I published a song once with a free distributor, after the song made more then 1 million listens they removed it and banned my account on their website and I never got the money :)

[@okangel]

That's not really true, Spotify lets you upload as many songs you want. It's usually the music distributor you use that sets the limit. Seems like you got the $20 dollar fee from DistroKid, but there are many distributors that let you upload pretty much anything for free (with limitations) or for a small commission.

[@computer9483]

@@okangel well, i might just check it for clarification, so thank's i guess

[@auzarchives]

Wait til people realize running a company costs money 😱

[@below_average_r6player]

wait realllyy

[@12mixes55]

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

[@Kourtix]

Yup artists barely gets any money all the money goes to the producers and stuff and the only way a singer can make a ton of money is by doing concerts etc

[@SirCat07]

@@Kourtix BRO 2.4M DOLLARS DID YOU EVEN READ THE COMMENT

[@Kourtix]

@@SirCat07 I did but half of there earnings are taxes and most of the money goes to the producers,song writers etc

[@SicariusYT]

“Only” 💀🤣

[@johnsai4074]

ONLY 2.4 MILLION? If you moved to a cheap country you wouldn’t have to work for the rest of your life from one song, and artists can make a song in a couple months

[@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) 😍😍

[@ChickenGMD]

Plus they can have their music on KZbin and other platforms as well. They certainly don't make little.

[@juliasssaccc]

@@ChickenGMD and concerts

[@NoFlu]

​@@juliasssacccconcerts usually barely break even, unless you're doing small venues and exclusive tickets. The main income is merch sale

[@haster613]

​@@juliasssaccc and contracts with studios xD

[@daylawashere]

this is the longest spotify ad ive seen

[@tundralwhisper7345]

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.

[@devocityscripts]

Did the maths and you would earn 48k a year. That’s only one song, let’s say you had multiple and you would be making good 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

[@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.

[@bnnafsh5503]

Now I feel so bad for my fav underrated artists :(

[@squigglejam69]

Spotify pays $0.004 / Stream I said the info and I didn't have to watch a man talk to himself in a studio for 40 seconds.

[@SadSappySucker]

It's $0.004 / stream broski Mf didn't even bother to check 💀

[@tylerbowdoin372]

It is a completely reasonable profit considering that there is hundreds of thousands of creators on Spotify.

[@Lucifer-sn9ir]

By that logic I just need 1 song to be listened to once a week by a million people and I'll be making enough money to support myself

[@sebastiantveito4854]

That's way harder than it seems tho

[@Lucifer-sn9ir]

@@sebastiantveito4854 and? A lot of stuff is more difficult than that

[@Lucifer-sn9ir]

Ofc there is one random video I can comment on but literally anything else I try to comment on it says I'm banned for 4 hours like wtf did I do lmfao

[@sebastiantveito4854]

@@Lucifer-sn9ir 😭

[@pipebombmerchant]

If enough people are listening to your music on spotify to actually give you money you make chances are you dont even need spotify money

[@meredithmora4131]

No one gonna talk about how he said 0.004 cents per stream instead of 0.004 dollarydoos.

[@Templarfreak]

one issue becomes that spotify will point people away from your song and your other songs to songs that already have millions of listens

[@matenorth]

THIS!

[@jazzWF]

bros math at the end is like trying to fill a word count in an essay

[@ayozapor]

Does 1000 streamings have to be on 1 song or if there are mulitple song and it count together ?

[@yuvrajpurohit8227]

Yeah but they can post these songs on multiple platforms and Spotify has thousands of artists so any more would be extremely expensive

[@bouji_]

Where'd they find $100 million over ten years to give Joe Rogan then?

[@N3rvousWrek]

It kind of makes sense it kind of like youtube. With how Unmitigated the quality can be and with how much is on there. Also if the song is fire then it will be played more then once.

[@faaresq-moneytips]

That is true

[@animemafia2085]

but you still do have your song copyright and you can post it on other app so technically if you look at it this way its not that bad.

[@AxolowIsKind]

Dumb question but as a KZbin music user does 1 stream = 1 view on the music?

[@jamesmiddleton8335]

When you said .004 cents, I assume you meant .004 dollars, which is 4/10ths of a cent

[@frostytorp855]

yeah

[@koltennguyen9604]

Bro that ain’t even that bad,if it were a Penny every time someone streamed your song once then they’d be giving away 10 dollars per 1000 streams,and then there are thousands of artists with a 1000 streams and that adds up

[@tsulan]

As a professional musician, these tips are very helpful! currently sitting at around 4500 streams and 14$ made so far !

[@zack4527]

I think that is more than fair. I expected way less per stream

[@Goofy-goober72]

Create another account and have the song on loop

[@J-Amadaeus]

Apparently someone already tried that and while it worked, their account was shutdown the moment Spotify realised what they were doing.

[@Goofy-goober72]

@@J-Amadaeus make tons of accounts with different songs

[@kopedwc]

They gonna sell your voice to ebooks

[@ep1k_4]

Holy shit this is more than I expected

[@Duckles29]

Now what if you make a bunch of accounts and just keep streaming your song on loop

[@ItzShinePlayz]

Uhh no. When releasing your album through a distributor app we have soemtime called the smart contract. When both of them bind togheter, you comission will be taken a small percentage. Becuase you let you use their streaming service on the server, they might want some interest from you. (I might be wrong. This is what I know as a solo band)

[@Real_hh]

Damn now I understand why people advertise their songs so hard.. not even mad anymore

[@Chlrintruc]

4$ for a thousand streams isn't bad at all

[@albertsallent]

.004 dollars per stream, not .004 cents

[@reksio_xyt8733]

Thats what the video said 0.004 dollars per stream is less than one cent it is equal to 0.4 cents

[@albertsallent]

@@reksio_xyt8733 That's what I have said, but not what the video said The video said .004 cents, and the real amount is .4 cents = .004 dollars

[@lassekock5515]

That do be kinda fucked up tho

[@Osiris-dl2vk]

How? Do you know how many songs are on Spotify? There being pretty generous wuth that

[@Beastyissak]

What is a Street is that like every time someone watch’s the song

[@darbythegamer5152]

Rick astley got that dough

[@BananaSoupProjects]

Wait, don't you need a distributer for spotify? What form is he talking about?

[@lostythesecond3916]

I guess he meant providing the information about your release to the distributor

[@habeebogunlaja2798]

I can’t trust this guy he went to school and yet now a cent is 0.1

[@JamesMerlaut]

"It's all going to the big corporation 🤪🤪🤪" no it's not. Spotify charges $0.015 - to $0.030 per listen for advertisements. That means 1/4 - 1/8 of the money they receive goes to the creator. The rest is spent on their 8300 employees. They receive $10 billion dollars per year. $2 Billion goes to the artists. Spotify pays an average salary of $100,000 a year to their employees so that's another $830 million dollars. Then there's tax and maintenance costs. There's several departments including marketing and legal... yeah legal... remember they have to traverse copyright waters daily people. So stop acting like artists on spotify are hard up bud, it's technically better than YT most of the time.

[@acog_oof7475]

You dont have to spend any money on getting someone to publish your shit on a record and stuff so yeah it is pretty good with what spotify pays

[@rohaanfunland2147]

Bro has my night light

[@ControversialOpinionGuy]

When you realize it's not low in the f*cking slightest.

[@bouji_]

Sounds pretty low to me mate.

[@ControversialOpinionGuy]

​@@bouji_ elaborate, because it sounds like you haven't thought about it very hard.

[@bouji_]

​@@ControversialOpinionGuy Unless they have to pay taxes for them that I'm unaware of, it's practically free for them.

[@ML-sc3pt]

​@@bouji_you realize ad views don't pay much more than that right? Most ads only pay about $5-10 per thousand views if that

[@EmiwayKazama]

​@@bouji_4 dollars for just 1000 streams😂 brro

[@abelassjer2644]

Apple Music Pay’s exactly a penny per stream btw (from what I googled atleast)

[@tntdawolf7650]

0.004 cents is good for about 2:30 of song that gets repeated (atleast by me) 30 times in one sitting and then never again

[@meessmulders569]

I mean sure it isn't amazing but for a fairly popular artist with like 2 milion streams a month thats still about 96.000 dollars a year. Considering artists also make money from record sales, merchandise, advertising and concerts its just a small portion of their earnings (even though the labels take a large amount).

[@ReoN.0]

If I was a artist I would care for the money, rather to make people happy

[@EtherealSully]

Pays more than KZbin it pays 3,000 every million views

[@lucasd2425]

Pays different amounts per creator

[@pvzgamerlegisniana6492]

Dollars or the person's currency?

[@vinnxyt]

So harry styles made 4,000,000,000 from streams?!

[@callmiichris8149]

*me now putting my favorite artists in a playlist on loop playing twenty four seven.*

[@linkrichardson6226]

The music industry is utter crap at the moment. Just robbing creativity.

[@theonewhoknocks4815]

Wow your soo deep for saying this totally unknown shit, dude spotify doesn't have billions

[@linkrichardson6226]

@@theonewhoknocks4815 I'm sorry you feel that way.

[@alviahsan6000]

That means The Weeknd made 13.6 million from Blinding Lights on Spotify 😳

[@SamDaMan2010boi]

You have the same phone as me!

[@RafanAhmed-iz8gx]

That’s a lot compared to other platforms

[@antfrmclt]

I’m confused what are you complaining about just make better music

[@p.fiteen]

Yeah, it's this simple 😀

[@joshuasmusic.c7533]

It's awful what Spotify and other apps have done to artists. As an artist it sucks, you can't make any money from making music anymore, or it's extremely difficult. Alot of people don't understand this, glad it's being talked about.

[@knightofiron]

@@_thekingofmonsters The record companies who put all the songs on Spotify actually have massive shares in Spotify itself. This means that they are motivated to pay the artists as little as possible which just maximizes the profit that Spotify (and the record companies) make. The people in charge of setting the prices for the artist’s paycheck directly benefit from making that as little as possible. As for smaller artists, this affects them too because that same rate applies to them.

[@kilwom]

Thats better than i expected

[@Nugz4Life]

So what this video is telling me is I want to get on iTunes, Spotify, Apple Music, and more!

[@tasenova2717]

you put them on all platforms. you advertise and consider other avenues and send the bold sound you claim to other companies. you now have a portfolio and can continue getting offers on both ends. self-made artists process

[@YourSetch]

Me make song: Spotify: this short Me: sure My song: the best My bank account: stonks

[@Zeuzzz56]

Bro looks like Primz 💀

[@jex_xx3820]

What “form” online? I’m still very confused on uploading on Spotify

[@alexcrazy1492]

There are hundreds of thousands of songs, and people are listening for like an hour to a day getting paid less than a cent for each lesson is pretty fair. Otherwise the company would go bankrupt pretty much instantly your paid a sent.

[@jcisonutubee]

Miley got 6M dollars on Flowers alone the first two months of 2023 😭

[@SianaGearz]

Does radio play more per listener?

[@Boujee4k_vline]

U just gotta make really catchy stuff and boom big money will start

[@DTux5249]

If an artist only intends to have 1 song, they've chosen the wrong profession

[@mikz5342]

How do you det up your payment on Spotify?

[@lidyamanan3097]

KZbin:I gotchu bro

[@weeb...senpaii7196]

How to put songs on spotify tho?

[@Pluto-Symphony]

This is close to youtube numbers

[@DragonSlayer-zk4ux]

Clash barbarian type cut

[@MK-re4rj]

Hey I have around 30,000 streams on my music on Spotify but have no idea how to receive payments, is there a process for this ?

[@ricardisskiss]

great question, have you checked your emails?

[@cryptokngs]

You have to submit your songs either through distrokid or uninted masters to get paid.

[@Ty-J_250]

Link your music

[@nko4451]

Nobody listens to songs only once. I can give you an example - In my country (poor poor Bulgaria) the most users of Spotify are "chalgars" they listen to specific genre (chalga) and most of them use similar playlists everyday => Imagine you have 1000 listeners, average 1h/d listening time and the playlist is from 10x3m songs = 2000x0.004 = 8$ per day, which is good if you have auditory smaller than 5k people

[@koslz]

As a Artist that publish music to Spotify, this is true

[@TheRealTransformersFan721]

Bro that's where triple J comes in

[@therealgamerfrancais8791]

Am i the only one that cant find control on apple music

[@hardc00re10]

Spotify loses money. The problem is the consumers are not willing to pay. As soon as the price reaches a certain point everyone just downloads. Spotify makes it possible for smaller artists to get recognition so they can make money live later. Or just start your own Spotify if you think you can find a solution

[@Fizzergamez]

Oh ye btw WAnNa BrEaKe FrOm thE ADDS?

[@Boop__Doop]

Asuming the rates are similar between youtube and spotify I have given the beatles about 80$

[@vivanfernandes]

And thats only in the U.S💀

[@teddybear1395]

Sound trap moment 😀

[@zethcader6478]

Probably works out better in the long run, no greedy record companies, no stupid crap.

[@HaVoCX64]

i didn't know you can make money like that

[@MSMustafaM3220]

Do you have to pay to upload song on spotify?

[@kiyoraka3537]

the reasons most famous musical artists get rich arent because the streaming services or labels really pay them much of anything for their work, but more rather by doing tours and getting brand deals with companies who pay that artist to sponsor their brand

[@jodiehobbs3837]

I feel like it's worth considering that there are millions of people using Spotify around the world all the time, so I would imagine that adds up at least a little.