How much Spotify pays its artists 😬💰
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- Опубліковано 19 чер 2022
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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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But think about it, there are hundreds of thousands of songs on Spotify and if it were higher that would cost a crap ton
That's completely true but it really does suck for the artists
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
@@faaresq-moneytips yes
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
@TintiKili that's because consumers believe in apple more so than spotify
*1 billion views*
UA-cam shorts: The best we can do is 3 bucks.
UA-cam videos: congratulations! You're a millionaire
that's TikTok ur talking about UA-cam shorts actually pays
LMAO
@@Ben-tg6mr not much compared to regular videos.
@@bucko0627 yeah I know
Artist don't just have 1 song, they have multiple
An artist is suppose to draw or paint I wouldn't call singers or rappers an artist
@@animelxgendz5583 💀
@@animelxgendz5583 music is also a form of art
@@animelxgendz5583I mean everyone calls them artists because music is a form or art
@@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.
Spotify has thousands of artists and artist donations are also a thing so you really can't complain because of the cost
also storing HD songs is insanely expensive
@orestisgeorgatos6725 good thing spotify uses a lossy compression method to make their songs sound like crap.
@@averytrashmouth what? since when
@@orestisgeorgatos6725 since forever? They have an equivalent bit rate of an MP3 file.
@@averytrashmouth do you not have the high quality setting on?
Just play it on loop, turn the volume down, and get rich
the worst thing is that this actually works
And make wide eyes once you see your electricity bill
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
@@turkiyemshooter294Its like an extra 70 cents a month bro
@@TeraChad23 10000000 iQ move
It’s pretty good tbh, considering some songs get literally millions of streams it makes sense
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.
And when you're on a label earning is hard man independent artist do earn a lot these days more than signed dudes
whys that?
@@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
Label fronts you money and take back with interested
@@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
@@rstresarintosv5949 "Labels want to fuck you."
If they paid even one cent per stream theyd go broke the first day
Nah thousands pay 15+ for premium
@@ICrushuh Spotify barely makes any money as it is lol.
Bruh there are about 100mil songs on Spotify so that multiplied by 0.004 equals 400k
Spotify can't get broke the first day
$4 per 1000 streams seems absurdly high
was bouta comment this too
@@A1rStar123 I think the old youtube formula from 2015 was approx 97c per thousand views or upto $1.90 for targeted ads
.004 per stream is literally $4 per 1000 stream
@@piyushmaurya253 smh
fascist moment
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.
Despacito with 8B views:
Views? On Spotify?
Nah they got 4M dollars for it on Spotify lmao
on youtube
16k USD
More like Blinding Lights with 3.4B streams:
I didn't even know they'd pay you at all 💀
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
You thought music companies put music on it for free?
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 UA-cam if they listen to it back in 2020
i mean shit that’s way more than I get payed through youtube
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...
You have to use a distributor right?
@@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.
@@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 :)
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.
@@okangel well, i might just check it for clarification, so thank's i guess
Artists don’t have only 1 song
They have tons
UA-camrs 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
Game devs can make 1 game and be famous
@@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
@@rGCSEinformed terrarria
@@Lowtap. yes
There are some exceptions such as Rick Ashley’s “never gonna give u up” but 99% of the time
Artists have to pay for mixing and mastering
Wait til people realize running a company costs money 😱
wait realllyy
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
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
@@Kourtix BRO 2.4M DOLLARS DID YOU EVEN READ THE COMMENT
@@SirCat07 I did but half of there earnings are taxes and most of the money goes to the producers,song writers etc
“Only” 💀🤣
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
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) 😍😍
Plus they can have their music on UA-cam and other platforms as well. They certainly don't make little.
@@ChickenGMD and concerts
@@juliasssacccconcerts usually barely break even, unless you're doing small venues and exclusive tickets.
The main income is merch sale
@@juliasssaccc and contracts with studios xD
It is a completely reasonable profit considering that there is hundreds of thousands of creators on Spotify.
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.
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
this is the longest spotify ad ive seen
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
Now I feel so bad for my fav underrated artists :(
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
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
That's way harder than it seems tho
@@sebastiantveito4854 and? A lot of stuff is more difficult than that
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
@@Lucifer-sn9ir 😭
No one gonna talk about how he said 0.004 cents per stream instead of 0.004 dollarydoos.
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.
It's $0.004 / stream broski
Mf didn't even bother to check 💀
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.
one issue becomes that spotify will point people away from your song and your other songs to songs that already have millions of listens
THIS!
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
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.
That is true
Yeah but they can post these songs on multiple platforms and Spotify has thousands of artists so any more would be extremely expensive
Where'd they find $100 million over ten years to give Joe Rogan then?
They gonna sell your voice to ebooks
bros math at the end is like trying to fill a word count in an essay
I think that is more than fair. I expected way less per stream
When you said .004 cents, I assume you meant .004 dollars, which is 4/10ths of a cent
yeah
Now what if you make a bunch of accounts and just keep streaming your song on loop
Damn now I understand why people advertise their songs so hard.. not even mad anymore
Uhh no.
When releasing your album through a distributor app we have soemtime called the smart contract.
When both of them bind togheter, you comission will be taken a small percentage.
Becuase you let you use their streaming service on the server, they might want some interest from you.
(I might be wrong. This is what I know as a solo band)
but you still do have your song copyright and you can post it on other app so technically if you look at it this way its not that bad.
Holy shit this is more than I expected
4$ for a thousand streams isn't bad at all
Create another account and have the song on loop
Apparently someone already tried that and while it worked, their account was shutdown the moment Spotify realised what they were doing.
@@Captain-J-Amadaeus make tons of accounts with different songs
When you realize it's not low in the f*cking slightest.
Sounds pretty low to me mate.
@@bouji_ elaborate, because it sounds like you haven't thought about it very hard.
@@ControversialOpinionGuy Unless they have to pay taxes for them that I'm unaware of, it's practically free for them.
@@bouji_you realize ad views don't pay much more than that right?
Most ads only pay about $5-10 per thousand views if that
@@bouji_4 dollars for just 1000 streams😂 brro
As a professional musician, these tips are very helpful! currently sitting at around 4500 streams and 14$ made so far !
That do be kinda fucked up tho
How? Do you know how many songs are on Spotify? There being pretty generous wuth that
.004 dollars per stream, not .004 cents
Thats what the video said 0.004 dollars per stream is less than one cent it is equal to 0.4 cents
@@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
I can’t trust this guy he went to school and yet now a cent is 0.1
Does 1000 streamings have to be on 1 song or if there are mulitple song and it count together ?
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
Wait, don't you need a distributer for spotify? What form is he talking about?
I guess he meant providing the information about your release to the distributor
Apple Music Pay’s exactly a penny per stream btw (from what I googled atleast)
Dumb question but as a UA-cam music user does 1 stream = 1 view on the music?
What is a Street is that like every time someone watch’s the song
If I was a artist I would care for the money, rather to make people happy
Pays more than UA-cam it pays 3,000 every million views
Pays different amounts per creator
Dollars or the person's currency?
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).
Rick astley got that dough
The music industry is utter crap at the moment. Just robbing creativity.
Wow your soo deep for saying this totally unknown shit, dude spotify doesn't have billions
@@theonewhoknocks4815 I'm sorry you feel that way.
That means The Weeknd made 13.6 million from Blinding Lights on Spotify 😳
So what this video is telling me is I want to get on iTunes, Spotify, Apple Music, and more!
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
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.
@@_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.
I’m confused what are you complaining about just make better music
Yeah, it's this simple 😀
If an artist only intends to have 1 song, they've chosen the wrong profession
That’s a lot compared to other platforms
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
Bro has my night light
Miley got 6M dollars on Flowers alone the first two months of 2023 😭
"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 $830 million dollars.
Then there's tax and maintenance costs.
There's several departments including marketing and legal... yeah legal... remember they have to traverse copyright waters daily people.
So stop acting like artists on spotify are hard up bud, it's technically better than YT most of the time.
So harry styles made 4,000,000,000 from streams?!
*me now putting my favorite artists in a playlist on loop playing twenty four seven.*
Probably works out better in the long run, no greedy record companies, no stupid crap.
the reasons most famous musical artists get rich arent because the streaming services or labels really pay them much of anything for their work, but more rather by doing tours and getting brand deals with companies who pay that artist to sponsor their brand
U just gotta make really catchy stuff and boom big money will start
Imagine having to pay to have a break from ads, Spotify sucks, it just lets it play whatever song it wants to play 😂
Spotify limits on how much songs you pick too now.
Nobody listens to songs only once. I can give you an example - In my country (poor poor Bulgaria) the most users of Spotify are "chalgars" they listen to specific genre (chalga) and most of them use similar playlists everyday => Imagine you have 1000 listeners, average 1h/d listening time and the playlist is from 10x3m songs = 2000x0.004 = 8$ per day, which is good if you have auditory smaller than 5k people
Me make song:
Spotify: this short
Me: sure
My song: the best
My bank account: stonks
Thats better than i expected
You have the same phone as me!
Bro that's where triple J comes in
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.
So the most streamed song has got like 13683570$
It's "Blinding Lights" by The Weeknd.
Currently it's the most streamed song.
Better pay than UA-cam per view
Asuming the rates are similar between youtube and spotify
I have given the beatles about 80$
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.
Bro looks like Primz 💀
Am i the only one that cant find control on apple music
Apple music is about 1 cent per stream. That means-
1 dollar per 100 streams
10 dollars per 1000 streams
100 dollars per 10,000 streams
1,000 dollars per 100,000 streams
100,000 dollars per 1,000,000 streams
And thats only in the U.S💀
Bruh what? Last time someone told me, artist get $0.50 everytime we press the play button.
people that complain about the apps not paying enough, are literally brain dead, its like 20 dollars a year to upload infinite music, so it doesnt cost you anything to have it on all of these platforms, and if you dont like, you can just... not upload it
This is close to youtube numbers
.004 if a bigshot gets 100 mil streams that 400 grand
Apple Music pays a whole cent. Apple actually tries to pay the artists
different countries, different policies
in romania you make 0.001 per stream
despite the fact that it is a linear payment method, i feel like this price isn’t too bad considering the amount of songs that do get to that 1 million mark. If Ed Sheeran got 4 billion from shape of you, he made 4 million dollars from spotify alone. while this likely isn’t the case and there is probably a cutoff, it is worth noting that this is rather fair and gives everyone equal revenue as compared to youtube.
Actually. Thatll prolly help out here in philippines. I mean if you just play your song on loop you can some pocket money.
The Weeknd: 😏💵💵💵💵💵💵