want to know how much Spotify pays artists and songwriters short answer they don’t Spotify pays roughly 2/3 of each dollar it makes from music streams to the rights holder on platforms paid out between recording and Publishing agreements those right holders usually include record labels Distributors aggregators and collecting societies revenue from ads and subscriptions are paid out via something called stream share this is a number Spotify calculates by adding up how many times music owned or controlled by a particular rights holder was streamed in a month in each market and then dividing It Up by total number of streams in fact most streaming platforms you stream share Spotify Apple music Amazon music and others but not everyone gets paid in April Spotify began eliminating all payments for songs with less than a thousand annual streams in an effort to drive Revenue to what it calls emerging and professional artists as a result those with a bigger stream share percentage will receive bigger payments pulled from artists with few streams