<story><title>How we pay royalties: an overview</title><url>http://www.spotifyartists.com/spotify-explained/#how-we-pay-royalties-overview</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dmbass</author><text>Let me give an example:&lt;p&gt;Say I pay $10&amp;#x2F;month and only listen to 2 artists, each with .001% market share. IMO, each one should get $3.50 from my pool of subscription money. Using their current scheme, each would get $0.00007 while Lady GaGa would get $0.30 when I didn&amp;#x27;t even listen to Poker Face.</text></item><item><author>TylerE</author><text>I don&amp;#x27;t see why you&amp;#x27;re upset. Think globally. Millions of users are paying for the bands you like that &lt;i&gt;they&amp;#x27;ll&lt;/i&gt; never listen to.</text></item><item><author>dmbass</author><text>&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;  2. Artist’s Spotify streams divided by total Spotify streams

  This calculates an artist’s popularity on the service, their
  “market share.” Dividing an artist’s streams by the total
  streams on Spotify determines the percentage of our total
  pay-outs that should be paid for that artist’s rights.
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
This sucks bigtime. Why should artists that I never listen to receive any of my monthly subscription? This portion of the calculation should be done on a per subscription basis.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ZoF</author><text>I see your point, but I think your reasoning is flawed.  If each one got 3.50$ from you then they would get nothing from the other subscribers, whereas, as it currently is they receive .00007 from everyone... Even if Spotify followed your subscription model the end result would be the same small amount of money.&lt;p&gt;Your method would only increase complexity for Spotify and serve no real purpose in terms of getting your favorite artists more money.</text></comment>
<story><title>How we pay royalties: an overview</title><url>http://www.spotifyartists.com/spotify-explained/#how-we-pay-royalties-overview</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dmbass</author><text>Let me give an example:&lt;p&gt;Say I pay $10&amp;#x2F;month and only listen to 2 artists, each with .001% market share. IMO, each one should get $3.50 from my pool of subscription money. Using their current scheme, each would get $0.00007 while Lady GaGa would get $0.30 when I didn&amp;#x27;t even listen to Poker Face.</text></item><item><author>TylerE</author><text>I don&amp;#x27;t see why you&amp;#x27;re upset. Think globally. Millions of users are paying for the bands you like that &lt;i&gt;they&amp;#x27;ll&lt;/i&gt; never listen to.</text></item><item><author>dmbass</author><text>&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;  2. Artist’s Spotify streams divided by total Spotify streams

  This calculates an artist’s popularity on the service, their
  “market share.” Dividing an artist’s streams by the total
  streams on Spotify determines the percentage of our total
  pay-outs that should be paid for that artist’s rights.
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
This sucks bigtime. Why should artists that I never listen to receive any of my monthly subscription? This portion of the calculation should be done on a per subscription basis.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>samolang</author><text>Yes. But the millions of people who don&amp;#x27;t listen to those two artists are also paying them $0.00007. If you assume everyone listens to the same amount of music, then the two system are equivalent. If you listen to more music than the average person, then your 2 artists get paid more using the current system. If you listen to less music than the average person, then your 2 artists get paid less using the current system.</text></comment>