Statista visualises some data from Duetti’s pretty interesting 2024 Music Economics Report.

Spotify continues to be amongst the worst of the music streamers in terms of paying out some tiny fraction of their income to artists that get a lot of streams. The monthly cost of their paid subscription for their own customers gone up at least twice over the past 2-3 years, but the earnings per 1000 streams they pay out to the folk that make the music continues to decline.

I would not have guessed Amazon would top the list. I don’t know how their calculation works - but I wonder if it relates to the fact there’s probably a ton of people out there who pay for Amazon Prime but don’t even realise they get music streaming included.