The digital streaming platforms are the services helping both emerging Musicians to copyright and monetize their crafts to make money (claim royalties from plays and downloads).
Most Musicians find it difficult to calculate and identify how much earnings they are making from each streaming platform once their music is played or downloaded.
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Different platforms (Itunes, Spotify, google play, Pandora, Deezer, tidal, apple music, etc) have different price tags for downloads and streams.
In this article, we are going to talk about the streaming part which is the commonest on all streaming music platforms.
Kingsmotiongh.com has made this compilation to assist artists to know how much they make from various platforms.
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SOUNDCLOUD
1,000 – $ 1. 30
10,000 – $ 13
100,000 – $ 130
1,000,000 – $ 1, 300
PANDORA
1,000 – $ 1.40
10,000 – 14
100,000 – 140, 000
1,000,000 – $ 1, 400
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YOUTUBE
1,000 – $ 1.75
10,000 – $17. 50
100, 000 – $ 175
1, 000,000 – $ 1,750
SPOTIFY
1,000 streams – $ 4
10,000 streams – $ 40
100,000 – $ 400
1,000,000 – $ 4000
DEEZER
1,000 – $ 4.70
10,000 – $ 47
100,000 – $ 470
1,000,000 – $ 4, 700
APPLE MUSIC
1,000 – $ 5
10,000 – $ 50
100,000 – $ 500
1,000,000
AMAZON
1,000 – $ 5
10,000 – $ 50
100,000 – $ 500
1,000,000 – $ 5, 000
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GROOVE MUSIC
1,000 – $ 5
10,000 – $ 50
100,000 – $ 500
1,000,000 – $ 5000
NAPSTER
1,000 – $ 9.10
10,000 – $91
100,000 – $ 910
1,000,000 – $ 9, 100
TIDAL
1,000 – $ 12
10,000 – $120
100,000 – $ 1, 200
1,000, 000 – $ 12, 000
GOOGLE PLAY
1,000 – $ 15.70
10,000 – $ 157
100,000 – $ 1, 570
1,000,000 – $ 15, 700
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These calculations are mostly based on few criterias such as, the account being used to stream the songs, country of streams and duration of play.
Due to these factors, royalties may be changed from one person to the other.
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