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Then they honestly loose money with me. I listen probably whole work day (in reality more). That is 8 hours, cca 4 minutes per song = 120 songs a day. That mean

Then they honestly loose money with me. I listen probably whole work day (in reality more). That is 8 hours, cca 4 minutes per song = 120 songs a day. That means they pay out about 0.5 USD per day for me. Let's say not all days, but just 25 days a month (i listen weekends too) would mean 12.5 USD paid out. I pay 9.99 EUR for family (11.8 USD). There are other people on my account.

float4 5y ago
Doesn't work that way. The money you pay that is reserved for artists is thrown onto a big pile, and then the money is distributed to the artists proportionally to how many plays they generated.
srg0 5y ago
I don't think it works like this: a fixed rate times the number of streams. It is probably the other way round. They get _some_ revenue per user per month, which can be ads or a premium fee (which again can be different, because there are student, dual and family subscriptions, as well as one time promotions). Then they get their cut. The rest is divided between thousands of copyright holders according to some magic formula. Spotify still gets its 30%. As long as their operating cost to serve you is less than 3.33 EUR, they are good. If you listen 3000 songs and pay 10 EUR, I suppose that will pay out 7/3000=0.002 EUR per song. 5 times the average. If I pay 16 EUR for a family subscription, and we listen 100 tracks, then I suppose our streams will pay out 16*0.7/100 = 0.112 EUR per track. That's crazy good (at least I hope that the artists I listen to get that much from my streams when I don't listen much). My friend listens to Spotify Free. Let's say the ad revenue is 1 EUR per month. 0.30 is the cut. 0.70 goes to the artists. If she listens to 160 tracks, it will be close to the average Spotify pay out. Not much. Better than nothing.

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Then they honestly loose money with me. I listen probably whole work day (in reality more). That is 8 hours, cca 4 minutes per song = 120 songs a day. That mean

by czechdeveloper 5y ago

float4 5y ago
Doesn't work that way. The money you pay that is reserved for artists is thrown onto a big pile, and then the money is distributed to the artists proportionally to how many plays they generated.
srg0 5y ago
I don't think it works like this: a fixed rate times the number of streams. It is probably the other way round. They get _some_ revenue per user per month, which can be ads or a premium fee (which again can be different, because there are student, dual and family subscriptions, as well as one time promotions). Then they get their cut. The rest is divided between thousands of copyright holders according to some magic formula. Spotify still gets its 30%. As long as their operating cost to serve you is less than 3.33 EUR, they are good. If you listen 3000 songs and pay 10 EUR, I suppose that will pay out 7/3000=0.002 EUR per song. 5 times the average. If I pay 16 EUR for a family subscription, and we listen 100 tracks, then I suppose our streams will pay out 16*0.7/100 = 0.112 EUR per track. That's crazy good (at least I hope that the artists I listen to get that much from my streams when I don't listen much). My friend listens to Spotify Free. Let's say the ad revenue is 1 EUR per month. 0.30 is the cut. 0.70 goes to the artists. If she listens to 160 tracks, it will be close to the average Spotify pay out. Not much. Better than nothing.