Ali͎na NorakariSomebody I know is in the top 10% of Spotify.
Guess how much the artist makes by being in the top 10% of Spotify.
Around $50 a month.
Streaming music sucks
Laurent Q.@lastfuture This person you know should really talk to his/her label (or major, I guess). The problem lies there also (and maybe foremost).
@marshotel they're not signed to a label. They managed to get into the top 10% on their own accord.
@lastfuture Ok. Good for them. But top 10% is vague. There is so many artists on spotify. Do you know how many streams they make to earn 50 bucks a month ?
@marshotel I can ask him but that's beside the point. The post was meant to be a reminder to people that their subscription money is skewed heavily towards even the top of the top 10%. He's doing better than at least 42 million other artists on Spotify and he is still a long shot from making a living with it or even to break even.
@lastfuture A better question would then be : would he earn more if streaming didn't exist , with only physical sales (with the distribution issues it entails) ? Money was always skewed towards the top sellers, even when streaming didn't exist. I don't want to defend streaming revenue distribution (which seems unfair), but it seems to me that the music business has always been that unfair.