Streaming platforms start to lose money if you listen to more than 57 hours of music per month.

Here's the math:
5/0.00437 * 3 / 60 = 57

5 dollars for the monthly subscription, divided by average pay out per stream to artist, times average song length of 3 mins, divided by 60 to get 57 hours.

If you pay 10 dollars then you have to listen to 114 hours.

It is actually going to be less then that, since this is calculated using pay out per stream to artist, and their "actual" pay out per stream (aka pay out to music label) is going to be larger than that. @safe do you know how the pay out per stream is distributed?

So looking at my spotify recap, I listened to 52,000 mins so 866 hours of music, so 72 hours per month, since I pay 5 dollars per month, causing spotify to lose money

ok

revelations itt

Bro, get some sleep

iirc Spotify and Apple Music take around 30-40% of revenue off rip

Then all of the remaining 60% is essentially put into a pool and fished out proportionately based on an artists streams (e.g if The Weeknd has 300m streams and there’s 10bn total, then he will get 3% of that 60% because 300/10bn is 3%)

Fight the system man!!

Also, are you trying to make people pay more for streams or what

Mods, shut down this thread

damn lets go king destroying these corporations

how are u making them lose money when ur literally paying them

let’s shut these f***ers down

he explained it perfectly in op read damn

ill read it again

I love that u took the time to think of this and then come here and write it.

Stream Scuba 718 for 57 hours straight

OP this doesn't work unless every user on spotify or AM does this. In order to make them lose money, you need to make up for all the users who aren't listening to 57 hours/month.

So 167 hours per month, on a $10 subscription. Apple going bankrupt

Op is the fat guy at the buffet who gets 20 plates

I don’t think they’re losing money tho, doesn’t the artist/label have to pay to get the music up?

no but spotify's new feature will allow artists to give up their royalties in exchange for a better spot in their playlists which is complete bs

wait wdym they take 30-40 percent of revenue off rip? Cause techinically there is actually no revenue made per stream by AM or spotify, since their revenue is what ever the monthly subscription is. And every payout per stream is just a cost.