Some additional data: "Streaming music payments: how much do artists really receive?" http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/aug/19/zoe-keating-spotify-str

Some additional data: "Streaming music payments: how much do artists really receive?" http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/aug/19/zoe-keating-spotify-streaming-royalties http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/aug/19/zoe-keatin... "My $treaming Data" (from Zoe Keating) http://zoekeating.tumblr.com/post/16086277627/my-treaming-data http://zoekeating.tumblr.com/post/16086277627/my-treaming-da... Total streams for 1 month: 6926 Total amount earned: $32.07 Average price paid per stream after CDBaby’s 9% cut: Spotify $0.003339 Rhapsody $0.0091 Napster $0.015224 Rhapsody has a fixed stream rate. I don’t know the respective formulas for Spotify or Napster, but price-per-stream varies: Napster: $0.01658813 to $0.01721973 Spotify: $0.00102187 to $0.01158124 Some prior discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4330920 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4330920