{"id":5878,"date":"2012-09-06T12:00:26","date_gmt":"2012-09-06T16:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=5878"},"modified":"2012-09-05T23:37:02","modified_gmt":"2012-09-06T03:37:02","slug":"how-much-do-artists-make-streaming-songs-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2012\/how-much-do-artists-make-streaming-songs-online\/","title":{"rendered":"How Much Do Artists Make Streaming Songs Online?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/090412_2344_HowMuchDoAr11.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Song artists better not <a href=\"http:\/\/www.centives.net\/S\/2011\/i-wanna-be-a-billionaire%e2%80%a6\/\">want to be billionaires<\/a> <em>too <\/em>$#!%ing bad. Matthew Panzarino found out how much an artist makes when we buy one of their songs through iTunes or other services. His findings include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Streaming a song through iTunes makes an artist less than one third of a cent ($0.00330). This means that the song requires at least three plays just to make a penny.<\/li>\n<li>Spotify pays more by almost paying a cent for each play ($0.009669).<\/li>\n<li>But to list their songs artists need to pay an annual fee of $50. This means they need over 15,000 plays of their songs on iTunes just to break even (the number for Spotify is the somewhat better 5,171.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more about how best to help your favourite artist and the fate of local artists over <a href=\"http:\/\/thenextweb.com\/apple\/2012\/09\/03\/less-than-a-stinkin-cent\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/thenextweb.com\/apple\/2012\/09\/03\/less-than-a-stinkin-cent\/\">The Next Web<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Song artists better not want to be billionaires too $#!%ing bad. Matthew Panzarino found out how much an artist makes when we buy one of their songs through iTunes or other services. His findings include: Streaming a song through iTunes makes an artist less than one third of a cent ($0.00330). This means that the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5880,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/090412_2344_HowMuchDoAr11.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5878"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5878\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5896,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5878\/revisions\/5896"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}