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Who gets the money?

• spencerflem 2y ago
  On Bandcamp Fridays 100% goes to the artist/label
• roywiggins 2y ago
  if you are putting $12/mo into a big pot via Spotify there's way less money available to pay artists than if you buy a few albums outright a month, it takes a lot of Spotify streams to earn an artist a dollar. If you stream an album a few thousand times on Spotify maybe it works out in the artists' favor, I suppose.
• adrr 2y ago
  Spotify the split is 70% rights holders and 30% for Spotify
  • roywiggins 2y ago
    and crucially, it's not taking 70% of your $12/month and parceling it out to the artists you listen to, it's taking everyone's money and putting it in a big bucket and parceling out it proportionally by stream numbers, so you can't direct $8.40 to an artist by only streaming them. If you want to direct a few dollars to an artist you really do need to buy their music (or mech), or somehow give them a couple thousand streams.