Currently, each played song will earn a fraction of a cent/penny to an artist (around 0.4 to 0.8 cent)[1]. If you played a single song during the month. That a

Currently, each played song will earn a fraction of a cent/penny to an artist (around 0.4 to 0.8 cent)[1]. If you played a single song during the month. That artist would only get that fractional cent. The remaining of your monthly fee will go to other artists you have never played and may have no interest financing. Most will be the popular artists du jour pushed by the records labels. They like the current system because -by definition- popular songs will be played a lot, probably in large part by free users (they are the majority anyway at around 55%)[1]. So popular streams always get the lion share of Spotify's revenues, mostly financed by those who don't listen to them. [1]: https://www.businessofapps.com/data/spotify-statistics/ https://www.businessofapps.com/data/spotify-statistics/