Spotify Artist Payment Model. In today’s episode i discuss the controversy surrounding the ceo of spotify, daniel ek’s comment: Lamb outlined spotify’s argument for its new feature.

Two years ago, in a funding round, investors valued spotify at $8. The music industry saw its true growth after 2015 where the music streaming software and applications like spotify (140 million subscribers), apple music (30 million subscribers), etc. For example, spotify says that its average payout for a stream to labels and publishers is between $0.006 and $0.0084 but information is beautiful suggests that the average payment to an artist.

On spotify, that equals $2.34 going to rights holders (.013 x 12 x 15) in the first year.

At launch, the service will allow artists and. Since the average stream pays $0.00318, 1000 streams on spotify will earn the rights holder(s) of a musical work about $3.18. Whether you’re an established artist or new to the game, spotify for artists is the only way to pitch new songs to editors of some of the world’s most followed playlists. “you can’t record music once every three to four years and think that’s going to be enough.” i also go into how spotify’s payment model actually works and if it’s fair or not.