

If artists are on smaller playlists like Mellow Favorites, there's still an opportunity to move up to a larger, better-known one like Chill R&B. Spotify's RapCaviar playlist currently has more than 13 million subscribers.

His strategic curation has helped propel artists towards a wider audience and showcased underground music, with Vulture even dubbing it "the most influential playlist in music." RapCaviar, curated by Tuma Basa, is one of the most popular editorial playlists. " song was already hot in the streets and doing relatively well, but when 'NBA 2k18' came out, her streams grew and are still steadily consistent." "Popularity and getting on their editorial playlists are two huge factors," manager Brookes-Keyes said. The role of Spotify's 4 billion playlists shouldn't be sold short either.

And the pay-per-stream also changes based on what country a listener is from according to music distributor iGroove, listeners from the US pay $0.0035 per stream, for example, while Italian listeners will pay $0.0019. Spotify Premium listeners pay more per stream than Free tier listeners. One of the easiest and most obvious ways to earn more on Spotify is by increasing your fanbase and number of streams. So for artists to obtain more money, they need more streams. More popular artists have their music streamed more, which means they earn more.

This system pays rights-holders according to how their streams hold up against popular songs during a set amount of time. "Tunecore does 100% royalties, but you have to pay an annual fee of $50 for an album and $10 for a single." How to increase how much you earn per Spotify streamĪ study conducted by Digital Media Finland in 2017 focused on the pro-rata system used for Finnish Spotify Premium subscribers. Meaning the cost is starting to lower," said Sharlea Brookes-Keyes, manager for Boston rapper Vintage Lee. "Now that there are more distribution outlets, that sector of the industry is starting to scale. Bigger artists signed to major labels go through an in-house process. Independent artists and their managers typically use distribution services like Tunecore or Distrokid to get their music onto Spotify. They help set you up and walk you through how much you're being paid per stream, and the royalty payout process," Pain said. "Each DSP has its payout, and it's your distribution company's responsibility to get the correct payout.
