Microsoft as always trying hard to get in the business and failing spectacularly. Never heard of Xbox music
Probably the backend service that ran the front end for the Windows 10 things later on. I think Groove?
TIL Xbox Music is a thing
How does this compare to radio?
Radio stations generally pay some organisation/company for the rights to play music.
That makes a lot of sense. Thanks!
Edit: I guess I’m wondering if smaller artists would make more from getting on the radio or getting popular on Spotify…
Here’s an example of the Dutch company that handles the music rights.
I’m guessing artists most definitely make more from streaming services, at least in the Netherlands.
Very interesting! I don’t speak Dutch, but I think I got the gist from the numbers they showed.
Is there one of the better ratio services that folks recommend?
I recommend not using streaming services as almost all money goes to the streaming company and the labels, and instead buying music directly from the artists.
This is probably outdated. It’s from 2018.
That is how years work.
Qobuz is paying even more $0.04390
https://community.roonlabs.com/t/qobuz-giving-more-back-to-the-artists-than-other-services/125013
How they can afford that rate, an user that listens just one hour per day would cost them more than the monthly subscription (30×60÷3×,044)
Probably because they sell you the FLAC files directly, too. But you are right, it’s a high payout, that can’t be really sustainable.
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Banking that not everyone is a power user and listens 100k minutes per year?
This seems to be the original source: https://thetrichordist.com/2020/03/05/2019-2020-streaming-price-bible-youtube-is-still-the-1-problem-to-solve/ Note that this is sorted by market share and not by the payout.
This article sends more up to date.
On average artists on Spotify receive around $0.003 per one stream… In order to make $1, you need about 334 streams.
I knew it was bad, but I didn’t realize it was that bad. Anyone know what the best way to buy music is that benefits the artist the most? I know concerts are the most profitable, but I can’t easily go to concerts these days because I have young kids.
Also, is this net of label fees, or is the artists share even smaller? I assume labels tend to take about half as mentioned earlier in the article.
I think the best for the artist is buying physical copies from their own homepage. Probably followed by Bandcamp
Technically you can stream the music you purchased on Bandcamp from their site, would love some statistics how it compares since probably only few people use it and artists also get a very high percentage of the album price (50%?). Now that I think about it, doesn’t Bandcamp also have samplers or radios or something?
Data so old it’s talking about Google music which isn’t even called that anymore. Amazing.
