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[–] veeesix@lemmy.ca 111 points 2 days ago (4 children)

And how much of that hypothetical $13 Trillion would be shared the poor, poor artists?

When this whole thing with Lily Allen was a thing, where she got more from posting feet pic on OnlyFans than from Spotify, someone posted an article that said Spotify is paying out like 150k-200k per month just for her streams. And yet only a tiny fraction of that ends up with her. Music labels fucking suck.

[–] DebatableRaccoon@lemmy.ca 42 points 2 days ago

Roughly $0.00002/a/s/l/m

[–] excral@feddit.org 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

There are 15.43 million artist on spotify, so they'd get about $836,000 each.

[–] Evil_Incarnate@sopuli.xyz 8 points 1 day ago

Less Spotify's share, and the record label's share, and the lawyer's share.....and of course they'd give the artists with the most streams a bigger share (they're the ones with the labels who get a big cut).

So about tree fiddy.

[–] FiskFisk33@startrek.website 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Wouldn't that be somewhere along the lines of $1000 per person, if divided over every single person in the world?

[–] entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 day ago

Closer to 1600