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Spotify also has a free tier that allows users to listen to music with ads, which reduces the average amount that each listener contributes to the pot. The Union of Musicians and Allied Workers have called on Spotify to pay one cent per stream, which may be impossible under Spotify’s current model - the company says it pays about two-thirds of its revenue to rights holders, and that amount is dependent on how many users and streams the service has at any given moment. Since that money may pass through a record company before making its way to an artist, hundreds of millions of streams may be needed for a musician to net anything substantial. Industry estimates put Spotify’s payout rate for recordings at about $4,000 per million streams, or less than half a cent per stream. “That’s why I felt compelled to talk about it.
“If we got paid a meaningful income from streaming, that could be a weekly grocery shop it could contribute to your rent or your mortgage when you need it the most,” Shah said. Last fall, Shah testified before a Parliamentary committee that has been taking a hard look at the economics of streaming, raising the prospect of new regulation. Money from the streams of her songs on services like Spotify and Apple Music was practically nonexistent, she said, adding up to “just a few pounds here and there.” So she joined other disillusioned musicians in organizing online to push for change. Like musicians everywhere who were stuck off the road, staring into the abyss of their bank accounts, Shah - whose dark alto and eclectic songs have brought her critical acclaim and a niche following - began to examine her livelihood as an artist. “I was financially crippled,” Shah said in an interview.
The concert bookings that sustained her vanished and, at age 34, she moved back in with her parents on the northeast coast of England.
When the pandemic hit last year, the British singer-songwriter Nadine Shah saw her income dry up in an instant.
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