February 20, 2014February 19, 2014 by trichordist Streaming Price Index Updated 2014 : Per Stream Pay Rates Here ya go, the world of micro-decimal math. RELATED: Streaming Price Index : Pay Rates as of 12/31/11 Music Streaming Math, Can It All Add Up? Streaming Services Will Never Become Profitable, Study Finds… Share this:TwitterFacebookEmailRedditLinkedInTumblrPinterestLike this:Like Loading... Related
Are these for digital sound recordings? I wonder what the rate is for songwriters and music publishers? Thanks.
OK, what? Most of these numbers, Spot, Rhapsody, those all look consistent with what I’ve seen in the past elsewhere. But I’m dumbfounded to imagine that Google is paying over 4-1/2 cents a track. And Nokia? Holy mackerel. I’m also really curious about that second ‘per song download’ column. Just what are those numbers?
The “per song download” column is that number of streams required to equal one transactional song download at iTunes, 70 cents net per song.
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Why is Last.fm omitted? Don’t they have over 45 million users?
Are these for digital sound recordings? I wonder what the rate is for songwriters and music publishers? Thanks.
OK, what?
Most of these numbers, Spot, Rhapsody, those all look consistent with what I’ve seen in the past elsewhere.
But I’m dumbfounded to imagine that Google is paying over 4-1/2 cents a track. And Nokia? Holy mackerel.
I’m also really curious about that second ‘per song download’ column. Just what are those numbers?
The “per song download” column is that number of streams required to equal one transactional song download at iTunes, 70 cents net per song.