What Streaming Music Services Pay (Updated for 2019)

Early last year, Digital Music News published its streaming royalty payouts list.

Thanks to information from third-party websites, we ranked streaming music services according to their per-stream rate.

We found Pandora had the highest per-play royalty rate.  At $0.01682 per play, an independent artist would need around 87,515 plays to earn the US monthly minimum wage of $1,472.

YouTube had the worst per-stream payouts.  At $0.00074 per stream, artists and content creators would make $1,472 after 1,989,189 million plays.

Now, using information gathered from real artists and third-party websites, we’ve updated our streaming music services payouts list for 2019.

Take a look.

Read more: https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2018/12/25/streaming-music-services-pay-2019/