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What Spotify Pays Out

Spotify recently released a report on how it pays its labels and artists, and it isn't per stream. If you think listening to your favorite indie artists on spotify helps support them, consider this: all the money gets thrown into a pool, most of which gets distributed out to the most popular streams.

Spotify keeps 30 percent for itself, and 70 percent goes to the "master and publishing owners." So if the music is owned by a label, the 70 percent goes there; if the music is owned by the artist, the payout goes directly to the artist. The 70 percent figure appears to be a bit flexible.