Oh, and how much do they make from streaming?

Yaaaas how much do artists make from streaming.

Rihanna getting her 80 cents for BBHMM and American Oxygen!

Her Label is nested within Columbia and Columbia within Sony so she's getting maybe a dime more?

I'm not surprised, it's been known artists make little money from actual music sales these days. Now it's all about touring and endorsement deals. If I were an artist I'd be touring as much as possible to get those coins

They are not featured artists tho. The 3 of them appear as lead artists in the song.

Get money Gaga.

Everything is according to the artist's contract. Some for example, get nothing from the Itunes sales by other mean, the profits go directly to the label. What I'm trying to say , they sign a $10millions contract and they will get it after 3 years of working their butt off, Meghan everyone(get the idea?)? Basically this does not imply to all artist, really depends on the contract. Now this remind me of Madonna...since she is the boss of her everything.

She got $15M as an advance from Elizabeth Arden She commands much more than that.

And taxes would have to be 37.5% to take away $3M. Getting $8M just from digital single sales in just one country is actually not bad, imo, because it's only part of the overall picture.

More than I thought they got tbh

my dumb ass calculator did PEMDAS

there is almost always more than one writer and producer....so the amount is split between them whick makes it even less.

plus, there's taxes that eat up half of the earnings.

and now take half of that amount for the taxes
so basically she earned 750k with a huge smash.

im surprised the songwriter gets less than the artist
i thought it was the other way around.