


The % of this revenue share is previously agreed with labels and/or distributors (i) A service earmarks a total royalty pool of money, calculated as a certain share of its net revenues that month.

Instead, recorded music payouts from Spotify and Apple Music are figured out, by and large, via this two-step method: This take (and it’s a take that many other media outlets whipped up in headlines) should come with a neon-lit caveat: no major streaming service in the world actually pays out on a per-stream basis. The Wall Street Journal broke the story of Apple’s letter on Friday, and within its report noted that: “Apple’s penny-per-stream payment structure… is roughly double what Spotify… pays music-rights holders per stream.”
