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Pandora Pays Artists $0.001 Per Stream, Thinks This Is "Very Fair"

Posted by samzenpus on from the getting-your-cut dept.

journovampire writes with this story about how much artists make on Spotify. "Pandora founder Tim Westergren has claimed that the company is paying out 'very fair' sums to artists, despite its per-stream royalty weighing in at just one sixth of Spotify's. The digital personalized radio platform has previously gone on-record as saying that it pays music rights-holders approximately $0.0014 for each play of their tracks: Westergren blogged in 2013 that Pandora pays ‘around $1,370 for a million spins’. That’s around 80% smaller than Spotify’s per-stream payout, which officially stands somewhere between $0.006 and $0.0084."

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  1. Re:"Rights Holders"? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Yes.

  2. Re:How does this compare to radio? by ColdWetDog · · Score: 4, Funny

    where as an online station could be streaming the latest hit from Lady Gaga in theory all the time for months on end,

    Now I'm all queasy even thinking about that. Thanks, you've ruined my morning.

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  3. Re:Even cheaper by ArcadeMan · · Score: 1, Funny

    I download MP3 albums and re-encode them into the more modern AAC CODEC to increase the quality and then re-seed the album again!

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  4. Re:How does this compare to radio? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    where as an online station could be streaming the latest hit from Lady Gaga in theory all the time for months on end,

    Now I'm all queasy even thinking about that. Thanks, you've ruined my morning.

    Could be worse; could be Justin Bieber..

  5. Re:Add it up by David_W · · Score: 3, Funny

    The AC probably works for Verizon.

    (Sorry, had to...)