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Spotify is trash. Here's an article breaking down how many listens an artist would need to eek out just above the poverty line

https://www.hypebot.com/hypebot/2019/12/how-many-spotify-streams-are-necessary-to-live-above-the-poverty-line.html

TL;dr it's three MILLION annually. Labels get paid before artists from that too. Band has more than one person? Multiply those numbers. Have a family? Triple them again.

For a company with 100 million subs, generating close to a billion annually while paying artists precisely fuck and all.