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Why Spotify Doesn’t Make Sense for Musicians: 70,000 Listens Earns Less Than $300

Wednesday, August 15, 2012 13:00
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Zoë Keating, a cellist, composer, and occasional Radiolab guest, has released into a public Google Doc how much money she made from Spotify between October 2011 and March 2012. Spotify pays per listen, so every time someone plays one of Keating’s songs on the service, she earns a tiny chunk of money.

Between October and March, Keating’s songs were played 72,800 times on Spotify.

For all those listens — those hours upon hours of music — she earned $281.87. Every time someone listened to one of her songs, she made, on average, three tenths of a cent …. http://www.theatlantic.com



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