T-Pain has blown fans’ minds after sharing statistics for the number of streams from various platforms that it takes for an artist to earn $1.
The “I’m Sprung” singer dropped a little industry knowledge on his social media pages that broke down the average number of streams that artists have to receive to earn a buck from major streaming platforms including Spotify, YouTube Music, Apple Music, Tidal, and more.
“Just so you know……,” he captioned the post with the graphic he reshared from a Reddit user.
Some fans were shocked to learn the range of plays that it takes to put money into musicians‘ pockets, especially when taking into consideration how much money comes out of their pockets to pay fund their careers.
“How much does the record company take? The manager? How much does the songwriter take vs royalties for other artists? Eye opening.”
“How the f**k is that legal”
“This just goes to show you how much work an independent artist has to put in.”
Others, however, were less sympathetic to how much larger artists profited based on the various streaming models once they did a little math.
“This is short change? By these numbers, TPAIN has made over $1mil from Buy U a Drank streams on Spotify alone lol Not great for small artists though.”
“Hard to feel sorry for y’all artist flashing money, Jewelry and cars on social media”
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