• geophysicist@discuss.tchncs.de
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    9 months ago

    And in 2024, Spotify will stop paying out songs which get less than 1000 streams in a year. Which means for me, as an artist in the early stages of my career, I am going to get paid nothing. I could get over 1000 streams on all my songs in total, but still get paid nothing. I could get 999 streams on a song one year and 999 streams on it the next year… and still get paid nothing.

    As the author states in the previous paragraph, Spotify pays 0.003c per stream. I don’t think the author has done the maths. 1000 streams equals 3c. He’s complaining over not getting paid 3c as if that will fund his career

    • clgoh@lemmy.ca
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      9 months ago

      It’s not 0.003¢ per steam, it’s $0.003. (Actually £0.003, per that article.)

      So 1000 streams should pay $3.