Yes Bruno getting all them coins

People act like it's Spotify that scams the songwriters when it's actually the record labels.

More proof that Taylor is just greedy.

Would they rather just lose out 100% to illegal downloading?

Then people aren't going to sign up and then they're just going to illegally download and/or find it elsewhere.

You guys have no idea how it works.

Also thanks to Spotify, illegal downloading is down and even using free Spotify is still paying the artist, which is more than downloading it for free.

Spotify payments will go up in time. It's still growing. It's funny because people bitched the same about iTunes when it came out as well.

And they say they don't pay a cent!

OMG

Then the title is a bit misleading... Columbia will be taking the majority of that 100k, and then whatever's leftover will be split among everyone else listed there.

Exactly.

Exactly. Why people have no patience? The service is getting bigger each year thus paying more as well.
They want to take out the only good thing about Spotify, which is listening to music for free this is why we can't have nice things.

Please stop bring up Taylor in all those Spotify related threads. Taylor doesn't need it.
And $880k is not that hugh considering Uptown Puck is such a monster WW hit

Spotify is the best way to avoid illegal downloading. People that think taking out Spotify or it's possibility of free streaming are clueless, it will just make it become like any other service out there.

I'm curious as to how much money you make in a year. 100k a year is pretty lofty, so a week? Hell yeah that's a lot of money.

Other point: when Spotify gets bigger and global (and it will), the ads will make up for those free streamers and will pay just like Youtube does, with the advantage of giving us a great catalog of songs and the option to subscribe and download the songs.

If for 100k a week you earn 5.2M for the whole year, then yes that's a lot of money. Considering how much money a normal person makes, 100k a week is a lot.

Well Uptown Funk is at its peak right now, so it definitely won't be making 100k per week all year long. Then you have to factor the chunk of money (most of it) going back to the label, the money the artist owes to the label for any advances they've received, the budget for the music video and promotion, etc. There is, of course, that infamous NPR article that estimated it costs $1 million to make a hit song. Once you split the remaining money between Ronson, the other writers/producers/performers, and their managers, none of them are seeing anything remotely close to 100k.

I'm not saying Mark Ronson is some starving artist, because he's not, but even with a mega-smash he's not making as much as you think. And his mega-smash is the 1% of the music industry. This is with or without Spotify of course, so maybe this is a bit off topic. Oh well.

Of course artists could make a lot more by being independent (and I think that's where the music industry is ultimately headed), but right now independent success stories like Macklemore are still the exception to the norm

i think i will take the 4 million albums sold at 12,99 (avg) and the 15 million singles sold, plus the 600 million vevo views and the radio play and other streaming sites. her album sales are around 52 million dollars in just 4 months, that is 13 million dollars a month or 3.2 million per week. then add on the 15 million singles sold. at 1.29 and there another 20 million so you figure since shake it off came out her music made about 75 million dollars.

Are some of you still on that greedy ********? It is not greedy for ANYONE to want to maximize their profits, not just musicians. Business Ed 101.

Y'all just stop being cheap as **** 100% of the time.

As for this, it's misleading. Label & publishing are taking the majority of that $100k and whatever is left is split up. So it's not $100k/wk and whatever it is isn't enough for a song selling millions worldwide and streaming payments elsewhere higher than Spotify.

Another funny point: everyone acting like Spotify is THE only income.

Digital sales from iTunes, Amazon, etc.
OTHER streaming sites like Pandora, iTunes radio, etc. (kind of funny how no one is threatening to take down Pandora and other streaming sites, but whatever)
His album
Since it's popular, it will be used to play at events, maybe commercials, tv shows, movies, etc.
Album it's featured on
Increased interest leads to touring
It goes on...

People act like these artists are starving. Maybe the ones that aren't huge are, but either way, streaming allows more access (in a legal way) than ever before.

And yes, I still think it is greedy to want more. Yes, musicians like Mark Ronson do work for their buck, but when you have millions of people in the country and billions in the world struggling, try to pull that **** about these artists are being "robbed." Give me a break.

If you can't make it in this industry, pick a new career.