> artist remuneration correlates to how impactful their work subsequently is to my life (i.e. how many times I listen to it both during discovery and then over

> artist remuneration correlates to how impactful their work subsequently is to my life (i.e. how many times I listen to it both during discovery and then over the subsequent years/decades) rather than how effective their marketing is I may have the wrong end of the stick here, but it sounds like you think all artists get a certain fee per stream, where as the reality is far from that (depending on many factors).