> A rough google reckons a PRS royalty for a Radio 1 play to be about £38 for the song. The Radio 1 breakfast show is 5.13m listeners. I'd hazard a lot of the p

> A rough google reckons a PRS royalty for a Radio 1 play to be about £38 for the song. The Radio 1 breakfast show is 5.13m listeners. I'd hazard a lot of the plays on Spotify are just as passive as the radio (and it's probably replaced the radio for a lot of people). If you're working to the same metrics, Spotify pays considerably more per play (again, based on some Googled numbers). I don't disagree with your whole point, but I have to point out that Radio used to be a marketing channel for a product (a record), and any profit was secondary, while Spotify streams are the end-product itself, which replaced both the marketing channel and the previous products.