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Sharing a concrete example: 4 friends of mine are in a moderately successful band in LA. They have 1M monthly listeners on Spotify, and their top track has 17M
by benzguo 6y ago
Sharing a concrete example:
4 friends of mine are in a moderately successful band in LA. They have 1M monthly listeners on Spotify, and their top track has 17M plays. Spotify sends them ~$2k/month, which isn’t enough for 4 to live on (they live together, and record with their own equipment in a rented house). To make ends meet, they play live shows and tour (which isn’t an option anymore). Support your favorite bands by buying merch.
- hedora 6y agoAssuming a 90% cut for record stores and labels, I imagine they’d have gotten about a million collectively back in the 90’s. 1M * $15 * 0.1 = $1.5M
- why_only_15 6y agoWell, you would probably have a lot less monthly listeners.
- SomewhatLikely 6y agoI would guess there are a lot more artists getting a million listeners each month today than in the nineties.
- satyrnein 6y agoThis implies that every listener would have bought the CD. In reality, many of these listeners were just letting the playlist roll without thinking about it, and would not have spent a penny out of their pockets for that particular song.