Spotify doesn't pay artists and songwriters directly and how much they get paid depends on their agreements with rights holders. And after all the pit stops on the revenue chain, he says what ...

Nearly 1,500 artists generated more than $1 million ... of the largest record store at the height of the CD era." Spotify does not pay per stream. Instead, it calculates a rights holder's ...

A spokesperson said: "Spotify does not pay artists or songwriters directly. We pay rights-holders, these are typically record labels, music publishers, collection societies. "These rights-holders ...

Spotify has claimed it has paid $10bn (£7.7bn) in royalties in 2024, the largest payout to the music industry in a single year. The streaming service said 1,500 artists earned over $1 million in ...

Audio streaming giant Spotify's royalty payments to artists from Nigeria and South Africa - its two biggest African markets - ...

Spotify has been publishing some more country-specific figures from its ‘Loud & Clear’ payouts data. This time it’s South ...

Spotify itself noted that the 100,000th ranked artist on the platform earned $6,000 in 2024, a 10-fold rise since 2014. “Streaming services don’t pay out based on a fixed per-stream rate – j ...

A spokesperson said: “Spotify does not pay artists or songwriters directly. We pay rightsholders. These are typically record labels, music publishers, collection societies. These rightsholders ...

does not pay artists enough to make a living. The backlash has cooled over the years as Spotify has grown to 675mn users globally, with 263mn of them paying to use the app. Royalties have ...