When you think about it, wouldn’t artist make MORE in the streaming era than the CD era?

[BrothaZay]

You can easily look it up yourself, but to entertain you, on average, it takes 1500 spins of a song to equal 1 “album sale”. But every streaming service has their own payout calculations. Here’s some payout numbers of various streaming services:

• Apple Music: Pays artists $0.01 per stream.
  
  
• Amazon Music: Presents a payout rate of $0.00402 per stream.
• Spotify: Offers a rate of approximately $0.00437 per stream.
• YouTube: Pays around $0.00069 per view.

So let’s so your favorite song by Playboi Carti gets 10,000,000 streams on YouTube. That’s $690. So again, just like I said, even the big artists that are getting billions of streams (like Drake and Taylor Swift) are getting screwed over.

That’s one platform.(YouTube)

Spotify pays around 40,000$ for 10 million streams, which is what this thread was about in the first place.

Stop being hating flabby head. Streaming money is clearly better than CD money

 

[Street Knowledge]

Are they the CEO of their own label or a worker?

 

[tuckgod]

CDs were roughly $15, artists got like .50 to $3 a CD, after the label recouped all their expenses promoting the project.

250,000 x .50 = $125,000 from a flop of a brand new artist off one album, not including the fact that you keep 100% of everything else you make from your celebrity because there was no 360s.

How long does it take an artist to make that off streaming one project?

 

[The Devil's Advocate]

Should be..... but it's clearly not because the industry made it that way

They are NEVER setting things up to give the artists more... EVER

 

[The Devil's Advocate]

That’s one platform.(YouTube)

Spotify pays around 40,000$ for 10 million streams, which is what this thread was about in the first place.

Stop being hating flabby head. Streaming money is clearly better than CD money

Then why you can't you find a single rapper or artist to agree with you

 

[BrothaZay]

Then why you can't you find a single rapper or artist to agree with you

What?

 

[The Eliminator]

15.99 a cd and you sell a million 159,900,00

How many streams to make that much

That's if you are not signed
If you are,in addition of seeing just a % of that money,every expense there could possibly be comes out your cut

 

[The Eliminator]

Plus you're negating the shady label deals of the past...

An artist would get a huge advance on an album, which would be instant cash to use at their discretion, that would later be negated by the net sales and recoup-ability of the advance.

Without advice,they interpret that advance money as being theirs to fukk up,without realizing they just basically took a loan and ain't gonna see another cent until that is paid back

 

[EastsideRio]

How many streams per month off of sites would you need to make 50-100k a month?

1,000,000 YouTube streams gets you atleast $4,000

If you get sponsor/branding deals you good.

 

[The Devil's Advocate]

What?

Find a rapper that was selling in both eras, who is bigging up streaming as a good business or better funds.........


You even got Drake screaming about his deals and getting low balled and how the numbers don't match up. If it was all good and easier, everyone would be bragging about it. Not crying about it


The music industry will never do ANYTHING to give the artists an easier time or more money... EVER

 

[T.H.E. Goat]

Labels are still taking a huge cut from artists through streaming, labels gotta pay the stream farms(bots)that boost the numbers then they gotta pay Spotify for looking the other way.

All streaming really did is make it easier for the artist to sell music without having to have major promotion.

 

[BrothaZay]

Find a rapper that was selling in both eras, who is bigging up streaming as a good business or better funds.........


You even got Drake screaming about his deals and getting low balled and how the numbers don't match up. If it was all good and easier, everyone would be bragging about it. Not crying about it


The music industry will never do ANYTHING to give the artists an easier time or more money... EVER

Drake wasn’t around during the CD era