Meta pays $0.00000587 per stream, Facebook pays $0.0000695. See real rates for 100+ countries and learn why Meta is worth more for discovery than royalties.
TikTok pays $0.00000305 per stream on average, roughly 906 times less than Spotify. See real rates for 100+ countries and learn what TikTok is actually worth to artists.
YouTube pays an average per stream from ads and a higher rate on YouTube Music. See real rates for 80+ countries and learn how CPM drives your earnings.
Learn exactly how streaming royalties work, what factors affect your earnings, and how to estimate income across platforms. This guide empowers independent artists, songwriters, and labels to plan releases, track revenue, and maximize streaming income.
Streaming platforms normalize loudness, which changes everything about how you should master your music. Here's what the LUFS targets actually mean, how each platform handles your audio, and how to get your masters right the first time.
A stream from Norway is worth 10 times more than a stream from India. Not because the music is different. Because subscription prices, currency exchange rates, and local ad markets are different. If you do not know where your listeners are, you do not know what your streams are worth.
Extreme Music is a London-based production music library founded in 1997 and owned by Sony Music Publishing. Its catalog of 150,000+ titles features celebrity composers including Hans Zimmer, Quincy Jones, Snoop Dogg, and Labrinth. Serves TV, film, advertising, trailers, sports broadcasts, and streaming platforms with premium pre-cleared music.
The Rights Workshop is a San Francisco-based music supervision, licensing, and creative clearance company founded in 2002 by Brooke Wentz. Provides rights clearance for film, television, streaming media, corporate events, and performing arts, with expertise in complex international licensing and talent negotiation.
X5 Music Group is a Stockholm-based music licensing company founded in 2003 and acquired by Warner Music Group. The company specializes in licensing and curating deep catalog music to create digital compilation albums and playlists for streaming platforms. Its portfolio contains over 400,000 recordings and 11,000+ digital albums across classical, jazz, blues, pop, and rock genres, distributed globally through iTunes, Amazon, Spotify, and other major platforms.
