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How much do artists make on Spotify (case studies)

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My band has ~ 13,000 total streams on our music and that has earned us $50 USD Answer from Jsyourboy91 on reddit.com

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r/spotify on Reddit: How much do artists make on Spotify (case studies)

May 11, 2023 -

We all know that the payout rate per stream is low, but just how low is it really?

I was intrigued by the statistic that the average payout on Spotify is only $0.004 per stream. So, I investigated this topic and found out artists who were willing to share their real revenue numbers.

I was curious to see just how many are able to hit that elusive $0.004 per stream mark. You can read the full article here.

If you're an artist and you're willing to share your Spotify numbers, I would love to include you. Just comment with a link to your Spotify and I'll add you to the list.

CASE 1: L.DRE

Streams: 1.5 million (album)

Paid: $4345

Rate: $0.002896 per stream or $2.896 per 1000 streams

Link to Spotify

Source of data

CASE 2: GENERATION LOST

Streams: 2 million (total)

Paid: $5086

Rate: $0.002543 per stream or $2.543 per 1000 streams

Link to Spotify

Source of data

CASE 3: HARRY SEATON

Streams: 250 000 (total)

Paid: $1194

Rate: $0.004776 per stream or $4.776 per 1000 streams

Link to Spotify

Source of data

CASE 4: THIJS NIJENHUIS

Streams: 80,000 (total)

Paid: $170

Rate: $0.002125 per stream or $2.125 per 1000 streams

Link to Spotify

Source of data

CASE 5: BORN HUMAN

Streams: 2 million (total)

Paid: $4000

Rate: $0.002 per stream or $2 per 1000 streams

Link to Spotify

Source of data

CASE 6: ADAMEANT

Streams: 1.4 million (song)

Paid: $4040

Rate: $0.002885 per stream or $2.885 per 1000 streams

Link to Spotify

Source of data

CASE 7: RYAN HARRIS

Streams: 400,000

Paid: $1400

Rate: $0,0035 per stream or $3.5 per 1000 streams

Link to Spotify

Source of data

Edit:

How much you can earn on Spotify depends on a few factors: listeners' location, type of their subscription (premium vs free), your distribution deal.

You may notice that despite having the same number of streams (2M), Born Human earned $1K less than Generation Lost.

As it turns out, Born Human's listeners are mostly from Turkey and Poland, where the payout rates are lower.

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My band has ~ 13,000 total streams on our music and that has earned us $50 USD

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This is probably based in Western Europe and US. Artistes in lesser developed countries will earn less

reddit.com › r/truespotify › do you really earn $0.003 per play from spotify?

r/truespotify on Reddit: Do you really earn $0.003 per play from Spotify?

January 5, 2025 -

I always see Spotify’s royalty payments listed as $0.003 per play, and I’m curious if anyone ever makes that much.

Yes, I know the royalty pool model doesn’t work that way, but dividing your income by streams helps us arrive at a number. That number is meaningful because you deserve to earn a living from your music.

Spotify likes to tout how much it pays in aggregate to artists over the year, but then it creates policies to minimise payments, such as:

paying considerably less when a free user plays a song
paying much less when a trial user plays a song
paying less when a discounted premium user (Student, Duo, or Family) plays a song
paying only when a song has 1,000 plays in a year
paying less when someone plays a song from a lower revenue per user country
diluting the royalty pool with audiobooks
paying more to artists with market power
paying more to labels with equity (cough, Universal and Sony, cough)

We know that ~61% of their users are on the free tier and only ~15% pay the full Individual Premium fee, so how can every play generate $0.003 for you as an artist?

If not, what is your number?

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Yes, each stream for me is about $0.003 on average. I've not checked this last year, when it could well have gone up due to subscription prices rises, but the few years before that, $0.003 was about right. Spotify has about 40% paid subscribers and 60% ad-supported/free, so what you tend to see is that the plays from paid subscribers come in at a little over $0.005 and those from free users are tiny like $0.0003, and they average to somewhere above $0.0025. And obviously it varies per country as well - US subscribers tend to pay me about $0.004, Scandinavians pay more like $0.006. My music does well in high paying countries so I do tend to see a bit over $0.003 per stream. (Which is still atrocious and abusive, don't get me wrong.)

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Spotify pays 70% of their revenue, which goes into pools and it's divided by streams. An artist that it's mostly listened by premium users in the US is going to get more "per stream" (even if Spotify doesn't pay per stream) than an artist listened mostly by free users in a poorer country Spotify has clear videos on how everything works https://loudandclear.byspotify.com/process/

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How much Spotify paid me for 4 million streams vs Apple Music (BIG ...

A few things to consider here: The report for November is not finished. These things say they take 24 to 48 hours, and that’s true. Secondly, have a search through this sub on Spotify royally rates, and you’ll see a downward trend in how much the per-stream rate has been over the last 4 years. .003 per stream was the reality maybe 6 years ago, but .0015 is pretty normal right now. Things to bear in mind: as you say, it’s a “pool of money” that is divided up between the artists based on the amount of total streams per area and the percentage that the artist contributed to those streams. But this varies from country to country. Also, with exchange rates, the rate is different, with countries like the UK with a fairly strong currency being at one level, but countries like India or Brazil having much lower rates. This is because the people in those countries that use Spotify pay less for their accounts. And then there are free accounts, where you will get paid, but it’s almost half the value of the royalties from people who listen to premium accounts. If the country in question offers “family accounts,” those will also be less than the premium rate. All of this factored together, plus the fact that there’s something like a million new tracks on Spotify every month, and all the fraud that they are fighting: yes, .001 is about what the royalties are worth when you average it all together these days.

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Per stream I get 0,0009 $ for last few years. Idk why but that’s so baaaad

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How Much Does Spotify Pay Per Stream in 2025

Streaming is one of the main music revenue streams for artists in 2025. But how many bucks are you making for your streams? Let’s find out. Spotify pays artists between $0.003 - $0.005 per stream on average.

reddit.com › r/musicindustry › how much money could spotify pay artists?

r/musicindustry on Reddit: How much money COULD Spotify pay artists?

December 17, 2024 -

Hey y'all, i'm doing research for a video i'm creating for my YouTube.

I've been looking at how much streaming giants pay artists, and started asking myself... how much COULD Spotify pay artists? A few key considerations;

The number of songs uploaded per day. I've seen this number vary wildly, and every party has a different reason for answering differently. A quick google shows recently "As of December 2023, an average of around 120,000 songs are uploaded to streaming services like Spotify every day. This is a significant increase from the 20,000 tracks per day that were being uploaded in 2018.", but other articles have debunked these higher numbers as propagandizing benefiting Spotify (https://www.hypebot.com/hypebot/2022/05/more-on-myth-that-60k-songs-are-uploaded-to-spotify-daily-bill-werde.html). In short, one can assume there are multiple revisions/remasters/reuploads, and also a large quantity of songs taken DOWN each day, so there must be some middle ground number. Suffice to say, a lot of songs are uploaded daily.
AI music. This is already happening on a scale that I personally believe is under-reported. There are tons of videos on YouTube explaining how to make money doing this, but also tons of easy examples of AI instrumental music occupying playlists. There is already almost no way to discern the difference, especially for instrumental, but increasingly for vocal. Spotify has HUGE incentive to promote their own AI music library now that they've captured such a large market share. Going forward, one can only assume AI music will occupy more and more airspace on streaming giants, and will be centrally controlled for maximum profit. (https://www.bigtechnology.com/p/spotifys-plans-for-ai-generated-music)
Spotify itself has only this year achieved profitability, through cost cutting efforts (layoffs, policy changes). It operated at a deficit forever, to capture the market with ridiculous value (listen to anything for $10 a month).

So my question here is, for anyone good at math.. if Spotify woke up tmrw and decided to give away a billion dollars to artist streaming profits, what would the increase even look like? Is it possible? Would it make a difference?

I haven't done the math, but my inclination is that the entire model is unsustainable, at least for the vast majority of artists at the lower rung who regularly complain about low streaming revenue.

Thoughts?

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Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe Spotify pays out as much as they can. The deal they made with the record labels says they have to pay out a certain percentage of their revenue to the labels as royalties. I want to say it's something like 85% and then Spotify keeps the rest for their operating expenses and profits. The problem is the deal the artists made with the labels. Many record deals only pay 5% royalties on sales, and when streaming came along they expanded the deal to include that. So Spotify pays the label, then the label pays 5% of that to the artists. That's how artists like Snoop Dogg can have so many streams and only make a little bit of money. I run a small music website and handle the accounting (among pretty much everything else). One of our artists is popular outside of our site but because we have some of his songs on our compilation albums the streams come from there and filter through me. Our deal is exactly the opposite. I only keep 15% and the other 85% goes to the artist. I write checks monthly to this artist from anywhere from $750 to $3000. And that's just me, which is a small portion of his streams. I wouldn't be surprised to learn he's making more than Snoop on streaming.

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I don’t think it’s matter of how much Spotify needs to pay artists per se, I think it’s a matter of a fairer payment distribution based on how their music is consumed. Prefacing this by saying I haven’t even tried to run real numbers on this but… This is repeated endlessly at this point, but a user-centric pay model is the fairest way, IMO. Meaning, some user pays $12 a month, Spotify gets their $3.60, and let’s say for easy math this person listens to 10 artists the exact same amount. Each one would get $.84. Now, that might not seem like a lot but it’s significantly more than the avg per stream rate is now, based on the fact that one user generating .84 is close to 300 streams. Super fans might do that a month but most people don’t. But what it also does is even out the earned money for smaller acts. I personally dislike when these convos are hijacked by people with 5000 streams thinking they’re owed a bunch of money BUUUUUT if they’ve got a super fan that listens to them half the time, give them half their money. A compromise could even be 50-75% of a user’s activity goes toward that model for on-demand and the rest, as well as freemium tier ad rev, still goes to the generic pool for non-interactive plays so they can still placate majors with their minimum payouts.

reddit.com › r/spotify › i got paid 17$ for 14,000 streams?

r/spotify on Reddit: I got paid 17$ for 14,000 streams?

September 26, 2023 -

The title says it all, all my calculations even by the lowest payout of 0.002$ per stream comes out way higher than what I got... Is there a cause for this? I'm seriously considering leaving Spotify...

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That tracks with what I make, so yeah. The only way to maximize profit on Spotify is to release more music so you have multiple inroads to listeners and getting on playlists. It's passive income anyway, so don't worry about it, you made $17 you didn't have before. If you want faster/more money, sell merch and/or limited run vinyl depending on how much profit margin you assign (depends on your fanbase) vs cost. Why would you leave Spotify? They paid you money, and they aren't going to notice if you leave, so it's to your benefit to be on there and just learn how to work the system.

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Spotify isn't for you to make money, it's to gain listeners.

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reddit.com › r/wearethemusicmakers › here are the per stream rates per country spotify paid me in june 2020

r/WeAreTheMusicMakers on Reddit: Here are the per stream rates per country Spotify paid me in June 2020

August 31, 2020 -

I tend to see a lot of users questioning how much Spotify pays. Because the service is operated in a variety of places, each country has different rates. Even within the same country, when factors such as ad supported plays, family bundles, etc. come in, there is a difference into how much is paid out. In order to calculate the per streaming rates, I looked at the expanded details with one of the distributors I use to see each payout. In some instances, I only received a single stream, so it was easy to mark. In the other instances, I took the amount I was paid, and divided it into the total number of streams that was billed in that transaction. This post is to compare and contrast what others are receiving per country, figure out how to distinguish the type of listener that is streaming in each country, and to further the discussion when it comes to marketing efforts in different countries. The rates are sorted by highest paying country to lowest paying country. Any mark of "*" signified where I indeed receive the same rate multiple times. I'm based in the US.

France: 0.000485457036349, 0.002897846336*, 0.005565275662

Malta: 0.004535452789

Netherlands: 0.001061908355525 -
0.004399279483167

Sweden: 0.002265375201,
0.002610331811448,
0.00393913126825

Saudi Arabia: 0.000684412638239,
0.003686671837* ,
0.003686867769833

Switzerland: 0.00285523093875 -
0.003275749927617

Germany: 0.001976850740433 -
0.00311816

Finland: 0.002281227196737 -
0.003065809731125

Iceland: 0.0030639973525667

Australia: 0.001842578818854 -
0.003035139248071

Norway: 0.000431444057-
0.002992595310088

New Zealand: 0.002034756680114 - 0.002790867009

Guatemala: 0.001740935683355 -
0.002339340693574

Canada: 0.001395014958765,
0.002167800659,
0.002291752656

US: 0.001962569210497,
0.001962808239477,
0.001962809435431,
0.001962983493407,
0.001963197649842,
0.00196371622532,
0.001963734069479,
0.001964072356197
0.001964539014862
0.001964909952772
0.001965259126114
0.001971019243893
0.00200890335705

Denmark: 0.001844283414463

PoLand: 0.001840200993333

LatVia: 0.001837316862413

Belgium: 0.000452604801 - 0.001755075721431

Austria: 0.000722600219667 -
0.001550481671778

Great Britain: 0.001119790073923
0.001119794162415
0.001119796976265*
0.001119801249139*,
0.001119810621903
0.001119811626119
0.001125271995833
0.001356163806967
0.001436469229579

Uruguay: 0.000772666755333 -
0.001157250132625

Dominican republic: 0.000179000021 -
0.001088952505714

EL Salvador: 0.00013775001575 -
0.000931235400824

Qatar: 0.0009297501065

ChiLe: 0.0003014223625 -
0.000881339874739

Mexico: 0.000398365861527 -
0.000819586962917

Argentina: 0.000267295899556 -
0.000787698897333

Malaysia: 0.000188163983252 -
0.0006794950005

IrEland: 0.000641303988189

Brazil: 0.00036177302478 -
0.000520735984636

Costa Rica: 0.000519923136462

Hong Kong: 0.000488593235129

Philippines: 0.000242408078053 -
0.0004848161562

Israel: 0.000432246904098

South Africa: 0.000393990923694

Singapore: 0.00035638912465

Panama: 0.000165000019 -
0.000355210567

Italy: 0.0002365300936 -
0.000321480533269

Slovak republic: 0.000210431843 - 0.000320937950087

Spain: 0.0001485954464 - 0.000301296488444

TuRkey: 0.0002017324258 -
0.00025459836466

JaPan: 0.000252865887809

Thailand: 0.000218661021 - 0.000245366480436

TaiWan: 0.000242881537616

United Arab Emirates: 0.000156354386 -
0.000236645152043

Colombia 0.000163240024857 -
0.000233767440938

Czech republic: 0.000066617157 -
0.000195134011449

Portugal: 0.000192215483633

PoLand: 0.000191258522943

Lithuania: 0.000185677131143

Peru: 0.000050942531667 -
0.000182958304534

Romania: 0.000145774014 - 0.000178756037733

Nicaragua: 0.000129000001471,
0.000129000015

Vietnam: 0.000118102271865

Egypt: 0.000093000011 -
0.00009348001072

Estonia: 0.0000891494305

Ecuador: 0.000073666675 -
0.000088921578814

India: 0.000057285720857 -
0.000088470862155

Luxembourg: 0.000076217864833

Indonesia: 0.000050382723714 -
0.000066993998944

KuWait: 0.000066625007625

Greece: 0.000059514592396

Bulgaria: 0.000056054597011

Hungary: 0.000052363634819

Cyprus: 0.000047504801455

Honduras: 0.000039000004
0.0000393750045

Oman: 0.000032000004

Bolivia: 0.000027000003 -
0.000027142860286

Bahrain: 0.0000210000024 -
0.0000210000025

Paraguay: 0.000010666667833 -
0.00001070000125

Algeria: 0.0000055000005

Jordan: 0.00000087500125

Morocco: 0.000000586206966 -
0.000000625000125

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Anything with 4 zeros or more after the period is basically 0. If my math is correct You’d need 21 million plays to make around $1000. In the US generally 500,000 plays should pay out $1000 at .0020 per play.

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It's good to have your music up on Spotify and other streaming platforms, but this is the reason why I choose to promote Bandcamp over any other platform. How many streams would it take to equal 1 listener paying $10 for an album on Bandcamp? How about 50 or 100 listeners paying for an album? Not to mention you can also sell merch on Bandcamp as well.

reddit.com › r/spotify › spotify paid me $1,400 usd for 400k streams last year, not bad actually

r/spotify on Reddit: Spotify paid me $1,400 USD for 400k streams last year, not bad actually

March 1, 2022 -

(Screenshot below) I know we are supposed to hate on Spotify for ruining our lives and all, but hey as someone that does this for fun.. I am pretty happy with $1,400 USD (+ $100 USD from iTunes and all that) - wouldn't want to try and base my living on this but estimate I will make about $6,000 USD from streams this year (2022) if my Spotify stays on its current trajectory.

Do you guys think this is fair or does it seem like a rip-off?

Currently at about 540k streams, but DistroKid is SO delayed. ~$100 of this came from iTunes, Youtube, and all that the rest is all Spotify.

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Hey Ryan - Props to you on the streams. That’s great! If music is a hobby for you, sure the extra income is nice. In my opinion, between the effort you put into creating this art, recording, equipment, promotion, videography, etc… getting paid .0035¢ per stream still feels like a rip off to me. Again, props to you if this is just a hobby and not something you depend on! But this isn’t a livable income for someone devoting their life to the art. EDIT: I use Spotify as my only streaming service, so yes I am a hypocrite.

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Sharing this behind the scenes because I would have loved to see it a year ago when I started on this journey! I find it encouraging to even get paid anything for my music :)

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How much does Spotify pay per stream?

May 24, 2025 - This article was made to shed some light on streaming royalty payments on Spotify, Apple Music, and other streaming platforms, how much revenue you will be able to make using Spotify and the different digital streaming platforms, a comparison between the different streaming platforms, and who pays the most and who pays less. How much do you get paid per stream on spotify has an important effect on your earnings has an artist.

reddit.com › r/explainlikeimfive › eli5: how exactly do music artist make money from streaming on spotify or other platforms?

r/explainlikeimfive on Reddit: ELI5: How exactly do music artist make money from streaming on Spotify or other platforms?

May 29, 2024 - Spotify pays between $0.003 and $0.004 per stream for the rights to a song.

reddit.com › r/spotify › how much does spotify pay per stream for artists based in india?

r/spotify on Reddit: How much does Spotify pay per stream for artists based in India?

November 12, 2020 -

I'm from India with a dream of making a living out of EDM.

As the title says, how much does spotify pay per stream for artists based in india? Assuming I'm an independent artist using distrokid or tunecore or something.

How many streams would I need to make $500 a month?

Thanks for your answers

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They pay approximately .10 cents per stream. So 10 streams is 1 cent. 1,000 streams is $1. So you would need to average 50,000 listeners a month to make your $500. I assume there is more to this, but these are the numbers on average

reddit.com › r/musicbusiness › why do people only calculate spotify streams for a living instead of total streams across apple/youtube/etc.?

r/musicbusiness on Reddit: Why do people only calculate Spotify streams for a living instead of total streams across Apple/YouTube/etc.?

November 15, 2025 -

Every convo I see is “you need X million Spotify streams to live off music,” but nobody talks about what a realistic mix across all platforms looks like. Most artists aren’t only on Spotify.. they’re getting plays from Apple Music, YouTube Music, maybe Amazon, SoundCloud, TikTok, etc.

So what I’m trying to understand is: How many combined streams across all platforms does it actually take to make a livable income (subjective I know, moreso replacing a regular 9-5)? Not just Spotify in isolation, but the real-world blend that artists see when everything is added together.

If you’re releasing music and actually getting paid monthly, what does your breakdown look like? Are Apple/YouTube payouts meaningful or just side money?

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They all pay different so you can’t really say a blanket number. For streaming though, spotify is by far the most used so it’s rather hard to gain popularity on the other services. For me spotify is about 80% of my check, with YouTube at 10% and apple at 10%, with minuscule amounts from the rest

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I'm Swedish and for a long time Spotify was known like "the only good" streaming platform here. And for the consumer, I think it was the best for many years. Better interface, faster, better recommendations. Over all a smooth experience. But for an idependent musician... Well, I have never been a full time musician. But I've always been active in different music projects. And there was a time when iPhones were new, and iTunes was a big thing here in Sweden. And it was not too hard to get on the top 50 and a few times on the top 10 (for Sweden). And that payed real money! Probably only a small % of the people used iTunes. But it didn't matter. It was possible to get some money. For me, Spotify ruined that opportunity. And it never replaced it. Today we know much more about Spotify. And I think less sweedes are proud of it. And many musicians realize how it's all about tech, power and money. And very little about musicians. I don't complain. I got older and moved more towards classical music. I as most other independent musicians have a "normal" job too. But for 2025 I am totally ok with my money from music. But my 5M streams on Spotify is not what gives a lot 🙂 It's really bad honestly. Personally I pay for, and use Deezer, because I like how they treat musicians with their revenue model. I wish they could take a bigger share of the market. I am also thankful that my PRO, STIM, really do collect my royalties and that people really report when they use my music. I really think that for most genres, your income will consist from a lot of different sources. If musicians would stop to care so much about the numbers on Spotify as a proof of success, they would feel a lot better. Other platforms pay more. (Some pays less as well). In my opinion it is better to put your eggs in different baskets. It is not wrong to talk about the revenue from Spotify though. Because with their aggressive business model, their greed and their strive of monopoly, they deprived us many other existing opportunities. And music streaming would never have started if there were not music, made by musicians, to stream. (I am sure they will be the most lucky if they could just stream own made AI content now). But it seems very fragile to have Spotify revenue for a living.

reddit.com › r/musicians › realistically how much money would you make if you had 100k monthly listeners on spotify and posted about once a week?

r/musicians on Reddit: Realistically how much money would you make if you had 100k monthly listeners on spotify and posted about once a week?

April 22, 2025 -

(PLEASE BRING A PARAGRAPH GUY I NEED ITTT)

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My band has 125k monthlies and make about 2k$ per month from about 635k streams

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As people have pointed out here, 1 million streams equals roughly $4,000. my band has about 100k monthlies consistently, and we usually see around 2k in pure streaming income from passive listens. That said, our online merch store outperforms our streaming when we push it/drop new items, our patreon does about $400/mo and youtube/fb/ig/tiktok licensing rev all contribute in as well. From our experience, once you hit that 100k monthly mark, you can really effectively begin pushing other revenue branches that grow much faster than spotify. It's critical to remember that most artists should be building a spotify base as a method of getting passive merch traffic by pinning merch via artists page to specific releases, and driving live show ticket sales via songkick connection. tl;dr at 100k you can expect around $2k in streaming rev, but the real upside is all the other channels that start to open around that growth point.

reddit.com › r/popculturechat › how much spotify pays if you hit a billion streams

r/popculturechat on Reddit: How much Spotify pays if you hit a billion streams

August 5, 2023 - At the low end of Spotify’s payment table, ~$0.003/stream, you would make $3m from 1b streams.

reddit.com › r/nostupidquestions › spotify pays artists $.0084 per stream. what’s to stop someone from writing a program that makes a million trial accounts and plays an artist’s song on repeat in multiple browsers?

r/NoStupidQuestions on Reddit: Spotify pays artists $.0084 per stream. What’s to stop someone from writing a program that makes a million trial accounts and plays an artist’s song on repeat in multiple browsers?

July 7, 2017 -

I’m no computer guy, but this could be a neat way to make $8,400 every 3 minutes.

Google captcha

Even if you did it on ONE browser, I'd imagine that Spotify would consider it a huge red flag if they saw that some song was being put on repeat forever from this one account on this one IP address - especially if no other songs from this type of artist or genre gets that kind of attention. Doing it on multiple accounts would be an enormous red flag.

Point is, accounts would get shut down at some point.

reddit.com › r/musicproduction › spotify will no longer pay artists for tracks with fewer than 1,000 streams...

r/musicproduction on Reddit: Spotify will no longer pay artists for tracks with fewer than 1,000 streams...

November 14, 2023 - ... I long for the day that a new [maybe decentralized] platform emerges for music streaming. Something governed by simple, straightforward rules - Like, 1 cent per minute of streaming goes directly from your wallet to the artist's.

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Spotify Royalties Calculator 2025: Streams to Money

... As for how much Spotify pays per stream, they pay roughly $0.00238 per stream. This is based on the Worldwide Average (all the countries added up, divided by number of countries).

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Free Your Music - How much does Spotify pay per stream?

Spotify: Pays between $0.003 and $0.005 per stream.

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Royalties - Spotify

Contrary to what you might have heard, Spotify does not pay artist royalties according to a per-play or per-stream rate; the royalty payments that artists receive might vary according to differences in how their music is streamed or the agreements ...