this is actually exactly how Google Play works (http://play.google.com/intl/ALL_ALL/about/artist-terms.html http://play.google.com/intl/ALL_ALL/about/artist-ter

this is actually exactly how Google Play works (http://play.google.com/intl/ALL_ALL/about/artist-terms.html http://play.google.com/intl/ALL_ALL/about/artist-terms.html). The numbers aren't as clean and simple as "pay 5 to us, 5 wherever you want", but effectively what's happening when you pay those $10 is that it's split proportionally over the artists you listen to by the number of times that you listen to them that month.