VICE: “Spotify’s generous royalty rate of $0.003 per stream has made some…

disinformation. that’s more than they’d get for a single radio play to 2 million people on a national radio station. you can’t compare plays to sales.

vicemag:

“Spotify’s generous royalty rate of $0.003 per stream has made some lucky independent artists overnight hundredaires. For every 100,000 times a band’s song is streamed, the band gets $300; split four ways between bandmates, that’s $75 each. Let’s say in a year, the song pulls down 2,000,000…