Apple Music, Spotify, and YouTube, arguably the most important ways to get music heard– but which platform is paying its artists the most?

Thanks to RIAA-backed research via Nielsen, BuzzAngle, and MiDIA, we have a very simple breakdown via Digital Music News. Here are the dollar amount that music creators make fore every 1,000 streams on these leading streaming platforms:

-Apple Music: Slightly over $12
-Spotify: About $7.50
-YouTube: Around $1.50

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Recently, Information is Beautiful (IiB) did an excellent job of breaking down exactly how many plays it would take to make minimum wage on even more streaming services. The results might surprise you (check ’em out here)!

IiB didn’t compile their information from Nielsen, BuzzAngle, and MiDIA Research, like the RIAA did. Instead, they analyzed data from artists and a range of different sources, including Digital Music News. According to IiB, for 1,000 plays on the following services, unsigned artists should expect to receive:

1. The conversion formula is Spotify streams. (310/207) / 1500. The 310/207 ratio extrapolates Spotify streams into market-comprehensive numbers for occidental markets, simulating results on platforms like Apple Music, Amazon Music and Deezer. The 1,500 division factor reflects the industry-accepted ratio between 1 album sale and 1,500 streams.
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-Apple Music: $6.40
-Spotify: $3.80
-YouTube: $0.60

While signed artists profit a little more:

-Apple Music: $7.30
-Spotify: $4.40
-YouTube: $0.70

Source: Digital Music News

Frequenty Asked Questions & Notice

Welcome to the Spotify streaming numbers tool! We are very happy to offer you this incredibly efficient tool that gives you your favorite artist’s streams in one click only.

We wouldn’t have been able to achieve this without the great Spotify API and the amazing github project of evilarceus. If the latter happens to meet our page, we would be really glad to get in touch and thank him personally.

As Spotify doesn’t directly provide streaming numbers on its API, they can require us to shut down this tool anytime. They are transparent enough with their data that we can hardly blame them if that happens. Enjoy it while it lasts!

Naturally, we tried to make it the least technical that we could so that everyone can enjoy it. If you face any difficulty, please read the FAQ below. For any further request or suggestion please use the comments section.

1) Is it possible to fetch any artist?

Yes. We are directly hitting Spotify’s API. All artists available in their database can be fetched, including artists who are currently unavailable for streaming.

2) I typed in the name but no result is found, why?

Since many artists use similar names or even special characters, the query by name can miss the artist you are looking for. In this case, we suggest to use the search by ID that works for every artist.

3) Where can I find the ID of an artist?

From Google you can search an artist name plus “Spotify”. The first result will always be the artist page on Spotify. There, all 22 characters after “artist/” inside the URL reflects the artist id.
Here the example of Adele, with her id being 4dpARuHxo51G3z768sgnrY.

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4) Are data updated?

Yes, all streaming data are up to date. As they are retrieved from Spotify’s database itself, they are automatically refreshed every day.

Spotify is one of the popular music streaming application, Where it was having a collection of songs a million. Where if you also use the Spotify, then you also might wonder of downloading a single song using Spotify from a specific album or playlist, or Spotify song library. Spotify download a single song. This has kind of been discussed already, but I just have a playlist that is called ‘Offline Music’ which is set to download. If I want a single song, I just send it to that list and it downloads. That way, you don’t have to have a bunch of music you don’t want from other parts of a playlist.

5) I selected albums, singles and compilations but some are missing, why?

Spotify API limits queries to 100 albums, 50 singles and 50 compilations. Artists with heavy discographies and/or albums with many versions may have more records listed under these three sections. If that happens, we suggest you to search the artist one format at a time.

6) I noticed that one song is missing, why?

Spotify has many versions of each song and album, way more than often displayed in frontend. They often have slight alterations on their name.
In order to avoid flooding you with a lot of duplicated data and displaying messy totals, we took the decision to deduplicate lines based on the number of streams. If two distinct songs happen to have the exact same number of streams at some point, for that day the oldest song only will be displayed.

7) Why are tracklists of singles/compilations incomplete?

As we deduplicate songs to prevent us from double counting, tracks which appear in several sections (album, single, compilation) will appear only in the first one, which may lead to incomplete tracklists for compilations or singles.

Finding that countless albums will not load - I simply get the green 'loading' circle. I tried multiple artists, multiple genres, multiple albums, and still the same result. Sometimes the artists latest album will load, but their older ones won't. YET, if I search for individual songs from the albums that won't load. It will delete everything in the app and not the application. Restart your phone and open the Spotify app. For a PC first, close Spotify then create a backup of the cache folder Storage by renaming it. Restart Spotify, the app will recreate the folder as it tries to write to it and the problem is solved. I have a spotify premium account and whenever I open up spotify and want to go to albums or songs I've browsed for and saved they won't show. If I click either of the three tabs, a loading icon will appear and nothing will come up, i've left it loading for an hour and still it wouldn't load. Spotify pitchfork app not loading.

8) Can I search for songs which are only available under the “Appears on” section?

Sadly, the answer at the moment is no. We have a solution to retrieve this data, but it requires an exponential number of requests to the Spotify API. This would greatly slow down this tool. For this reason, this option has been removed so far.

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9) What does EAS stand for?

EAS stands for Equivalent Album Sales. As streaming is rapidly replacing paid-for sales, the industry standard is to convert these numbers into equivalent album sales. To understand how we convert streams in EAS at Chartmasters, please follow this link.

10) What is the conversion formula for EAS?

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The conversion formula is Spotify streams * (310/207) / 1500.
The 310/207 ratio extrapolates Spotify streams into market-comprehensive numbers for occidental markets, simulating results on platforms like Apple Music, Amazon Music and Deezer.
The 1,500 division factor reflects the industry-accepted ratio between 1 album sale and 1,500 streams.
You can read more about format conversions with explanations on our Commensurate Sales to Popularity Concept.

11) Is the EAS conversion formula valid for every artist?

As any automatic program, this formula misses manual adjustments. In Sweden for example, Spotify accounts for over 90% of the market, so local albums are inflated by the 310/207 calculation.
Opposite to Sweden, Spotify’s market share in terms of gross revenue is only 25.2% in France, so the average formula will typically downgrade French language releases.
All in all, the formula is relevant primarily to international singers.

Due to the heavy growth of the usage of this tool, our technical environment struggles to handle this activity.

We are still working on a long-term solution to keep this service alive, to improve its stability and to add some functionalities.

In the meantime, a temporary solution has been implemented so that you can use this tool anew!

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