The counter is also true that A1 gets money from people who have no idea A1 even exists. It's hard to say if one method is better or worse for the smaller artis

The counter is also true that A1 gets money from people who have no idea A1 even exists. It's hard to say if one method is better or worse for the smaller artist. Basically, is it better to get a bigger piece of a much smaller pie or smaller piece of a much bigger pie. Without the data it's hard to know. EDIT I'll also add that the big name artists have value beyond the number of streams. A platform without Taylor Swift will have less overall users, less money for the royalty pool, less money for platform development, etc... An interesting thought idea would be to create a streaming platform which only has artists outside the top..50? and see how it does.