In the European Union, Apple Music pays a little more, 0.84¢ per stream. Apple Music provided the second-most streams, and that paid 0.51¢ - a little more than half a penny per stream - in the US. Spotify’s gross payment to CD Baby is 0.44¢ per stream.
The most streams I received, by far, came from Spotify. Here’s what my music earns through streaming: This is what Spotify and Apple Music and Amazon pay to CD Baby - or to your record label or wherever your payments are submitted. Additionally, these are gross payment numbers, so these payments are before CD Baby takes its nine percent administrative fee. However, most independent artists’ royalty streams are probably in the same ballpark. I documented what I found in this short video:įirst, a few words of caution: These results are for my music. To get the answer, I logged onto the CD Baby dashboard for my own personal account (where I released my music, and that of another artist, back in the day) and looked at the recent history of payments (for the past 90 days) I’ve received from the various streaming companies. That got me curious to know, “How much does streaming pay me as an independent artist?” I also regularly hear from independent artists who tell me that streaming just doesn’t pay: “I used to pay some bills with my income from CD or download sales,” the common story goes, “but I can’t even buy a cup of coffee from my streaming royalties.” How much does streaming pay?Įvery so often there’s a dramatic industry headline about how little streaming pays artists and songwriters – artists like Pharrell lamenting they received a pittance for their millions of streams. But streaming is valuable as a gateway to discovery and other means of monetizing your fan base.
When you analyze the money you can earn from music streaming, you’ll find it’s difficult (at best) to earn enough to support yourself as an artist.
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