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Originally posted by muddysquirrel
He needs to get that Spotify gives nothing to huge established artist like Taylor who has enormous fanbase. She needs no awareness like smaller acts. Like HDD said he is only drawing attention to a fact that Taylor is selling shitloads of records while being off Spotify.
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Please read this excerpt.
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First of all, let’s be clear about what a single stream – or listen – is: it’s one person playing one song one time. So people throw around a lot of stream counts that seem big and then tell you they’re associated with payouts that sound small. But let’s look at what those counts really represent. If a song has been listened to 500 thousand times on Spotify, that’s the same as it having been played one time on a U.S. radio station with a moderate sized audience of 500 thousand people. Which would pay the recording artist precisely … nothing at all. But the equivalent of that one play and it’s 500 thousand listens on Spotify would pay out between three and four thousand dollars. The Spotify equivalent of ten plays on that radio station – once a day for a week and a half – would be worth thirty to forty thousand dollars.
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If 500,000 plays gets you $3-4k, let's average it and say it gets you $3,500.
Let's take a look at a current hit, Animals, which has 70M streams.
70M is 140 times the quantity of 500,000.
Therefore 140 * 3,500 =
$490,000
Maroon 5 has made half a million dollars from that song's Spotify plays alone!
They pay more than enough
