That’s because Apple’s price per stream is $0.00675, a good deal higher than Spotify’s $0.00348. to put that into perspective, Spotify pays out between $3,300 – $3,500 for every one million plays a song gets, whereas Apple is paying around $6750 for the same amount.

Crescendo and diminuendo arrive. The Baroque-era practice of terraced dynamics, i.e. sharply defined changes from one dynamic to another, was expanded with the use of gradually increasing and decreasing volume, known as crescendo and diminuendo.

Classical music used formality and emphasis on order and hierarchy, and a “clearer”, “cleaner” style that used clearer divisions between parts (notably a clear, single melody accompanied by chords), brighter contrasts and “tone colors” (achieved by the use of dynamic changes and modulations to more keys).

Amazon Music sits in fourth place, paying out $0.00426 per play or $4,260 for 1 million listens. Creators on this platform will have to get almost 296 thousand plays to earn a US monthly minimum wage of $1,260.

We provide the highest compensation to artists and are consistent in our approach regardless of whether an artist is on a major label or independent. While other services compensate independent rights owners less than major labels, TIDAL pays all major and independent labels and rights owners equally.

Mechanical Royalties In the U.S., the amount owed to the songwriter is $0.091 per reproduction of a song. Outside the U.S. the royalty rate is around 8 percent to 10 percent, but varies by country.

As we’ve mentioned earlier, in most markets, both songwriters and recording artists are typically paid royalties any time their music is played on the radio. So, for the American-based music industry, only songwriters and their publishers (owners of the composition copyright) are paid performance royalties for airplay.

Radio airplay is considered a public performance. Public performances generate performance royalties for songwriters, which are collected by the PROs (ASCAP, BMI, or SESAC). In the US, terrestrial broadcasters (AM or FM stations) do not pay performers or sound recording copyright owners; they only pay the songwriters.

The songs that spent the longest at Number 1

• Frankie Laine – I Believe (18 weeks)
• Bryan Adams – (Everything I Do) I Do It For You (16 weeks)
• Wet Wet Wet – Love Is All Around (15 weeks)
• Drake – One Dance (15 weeks)
• Queen – Bohemian Rhapsody (14 weeks)
• Ed Sheeran – Shape Of You (14 weeks)
• Slim Whitman – Rose Marie (11 weeks)
• Luis Fonsi & Daddy Yankee ft.