Streaming Sites vs Record Labels - Facts and Figures

Music Business Worldwide Article: Should Spotify pay songwriters and publishers the same amount as it pays artists and record labels? (published on June 25th 2019)

Digital Music News: What Streaming Music Services Pay (Updated for 2019)
Digital Music News: What Streaming Music Services Pay (Updated for 2018)

• In 2019, Pandora had the highest per-play royalty rate. 
• Artists are paid $0.01682 per play.
• An artist would need around 87,515 plays to earn the US minimum wage of $1,472.
• That equals £0.013 per play and 117,271 plays to earn the UK minimum wage of £1,524.52 (July 2019)
• YouTube had the worse per-stream payouts.
• Artists are payed $0.00074 per stream, and would need 1,989,189 plays to earn $1,472.
• Equalling a payout of £0.00086 per play and the need for 1,772,698 streams to earn the July 2019 UK minimum wage.

Econsultancy: The impact of technology and social media on the music industry.