royalties.fyi is a crowd-sourced project for surveying the music industry to understand how much (or how little) streaming services pay in royalties.
royalties per stream in usd
we have populated this graph based on publicly available data for each dsp that has more than one data point.
these are the upper bounds, as dsps historically only publish their premium royalties, not their free-tier numbers. that’s where you can help.
we know these numbers are unsustainable for artists, but how many of these dsps are even financially viable? frank woodworth asked these questions 13 years ago with his piece entitled spotiwhy.