With many of us either working from home or just spending a lot of time in our own spaces during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, music and podcasts play a great role to keep us motivated, for our comfort, and fill the silence of our quiet house. Songtrust collects performance and mechanicals for you for streams generated all over the world, via our global network of over 60 pay sources.Whatever you’ve been soundtracking this year, podcasts and music streaming have taken some interesting turns. With streaming service subscriptions continuing to grow - having gone up 24% in the US in 2020 over 2019 - and streaming royalties counted in micropennies, it is more important than ever to make sure that you’re collecting all the royalties you’ve earned as an artist and a songwriter. Soundcharts has an overview that estimates per-stream rate by service and across multiple countries. The rates the different streaming services pay do vary. And this estimate doesn’t incorporate distribution fees, publishing administration fees, or the costs of marketing and promotion. To put this in perspective: Assuming a $15 minimum wage (or $31,200 annually), at a presumed average per-stream revenue of $0.003, an artist would need 10,400,000 streams per year to earn a minimum wage income. And it’s not an exact science: because Spotify uses its overall subscription revenue pro-rated per stream per artist to inform streaming rates, they could vary over time.

Free), as well as agreements major labels may have directly with the service. The exact rate Spotify pays per stream depends on multiple factors - such as country and user account type (e.g. Unlike most types of song usage, on-demand streams from services like Spotify, Apple Music, Tidal, or Deezer earn both a performance royalty (paid to songwriters directly and paid to publishers) and a mechanical royalty (paid to publishers). To be clear, this is the total paid to all rights holders on the song - that includes the master recording owners, whether a label or a self-released artist, as well as the songwriter and any publishers. According to this Hypebot piece, as of August 2020, Spotify was paying rightsholders a total of about $0.003 to $0.005 a stream - that’s about ⅓ to ½ a penny. What Is the Pay Rate for Spotify Streams? Wondering how much you are paid each time your song is streamed on Spotify? Payouts to songwriters and other rightsholders depend on a number of different factors.Įvery time someone listens to a song on Spotify, it generates royalties.

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