Spotify Wrapped went stay immediately, giving customers an in depth roundup of the music they listened to up to now yr, which makes us all ask, “Is that severely my most listened-to tune?” This yr’s Wrapped featured messages out of your favourite artists, reminiscent of Taylor Swift, SZA, and even Bizarre Al, who had some choice words for Spotify’s pay construction.
“It’s my understanding that I had over 80 million streams on Spotify this yr, so if I’m doing the mathematics proper which means I earned $12. So, you already know, sufficient to get myself a pleasant sandwich at a restaurant,” stated Bizarre Al in his message on Spotify.
Bizarre Al, identified for his parodies like “White & Nerdy,” “Polka Face,” and “Eat It,” is asking out Spotify for its royalties funds to artists. Spotify pays its greatest artists $0.003 per stream, and sure, that’s the right variety of zeros. Not 3 cents, a 3rd of 1 penny per stream. By that metric, Bizarre Al would have earned a little bit greater than $12, extra like $350,000 however his level stands.
Most artists don’t make something near Bizarre Al. Spotify has roughly three million artists with greater than 10 songs on the platform, based on 2022 data, however simply 16,000 of them make greater than $50,000 from Spotify. Which means lower than 1% of artists could make an affordable dwelling from Spotify alone.
The video from Bizarre Al additionally calls into query whether or not anybody was actually vetting Spotify Wrapped’s artist messages. Solely a choose variety of artists delivered messages to their greatest followers, however plainly Bizarre Al’s message slipped by the cracks.
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