This is correct. While many of the exact details aren't public, Spotify's royalty model is aggressively hostile to the artists. Tidal, YT Music, and Apple all p

This is correct. While many of the exact details aren't public, Spotify's royalty model is aggressively hostile to the artists. Tidal, YT Music, and Apple all pay artists an order of magnitude more per stream than Spotify. Apple even lobbied to enforce a new royalty payment for artists of 1 cent / 100 streams [0]. Apple music effectively pays this rate to artists right now. In Al's case, those 80 million streams would have netted him about $800k. [0] https://pitchfork.com/news/apple-music-in-contrast-with-rival-spotify-says-it-pays-artists-a-penny-per-stream-average/ https://pitchfork.com/news/apple-music-in-contrast-with-riva...