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Originally posted by Retro
Financially, a $1.29 song generates $0.903 for a label. Streaming revenues vary slightly, but Spotify for example generates $0.0012 for a freemium stream and $.0059 for a premium stream. Since about 75% of users are freemium, we can say that an average stream nets $0.002375, which means that a song purchase is worth 380 streams, at least on Spotify. It's worth 753 freemium streams, or 153 premium streams. For VEVO it's almost the same: "artists stand to earn anywhere from $0.00222 to $0.0025 per stream." ( x)

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This thread has slightly different numbers. According to that thread, one free Spotify stream = 0.21 cents, and 0.146 cents (0.026+0.12) goes to the label/publisher/artists etc
90.3 cents (1 sale)/0.146 cents (1 free Spotify stream) = 618.5x free Spotify streams