On the industry average, Spotify pays around $0.003–0.004 per stream on the master side, so 1,000 streams are roughly $3–4. The calculator shows right away what your streams earn on Spotify and 11 other stores; further down you’ll see how many streams it takes to make $1,000 and why the amount varies by country and subscription. These are the same rates our dashboard’s revenue forecast runs on.
Average values (USD, master side) from 2024–2025 industry reports. The real payout varies by country, subscription type (premium vs. ad-supported) and agreement. This calculation is an orientation, not a payout promise. Publishing royalties (collecting societies) come on top, separately.
Napster and Tidal pay the most per stream; Spotify sits mid-field but delivers by far the largest share of volume for most artists. TikTok, Instagram and Facebook pay through licensing pools, not per stream: each view earns very little money, but it does a lot as promotion for your song.
| Platform | Avg per stream (USD) | Avg per 1,000 streams |
|---|---|---|
| Napster | $0.0190 | $19.00 |
| Tidal | $0.0100 | $10.00 |
| Apple Music | $0.0080 | $8.00 |
| Amazon Music | $0.0040 | $4.00 |
| Spotify | $0.0035 | $3.50 |
| Deezer | $0.0035 | $3.50 |
| SoundCloud | $0.0025 | $2.50 |
| YouTube Music | $0.0015 | $1.50 |
| Pandora | $0.0013 | $1.30 |
| Anghami | $0.0012 | $1.20 |
| Boomplay | $0.0004 | $0.40 |
| TikTok (UGC-Pool) | $0.0000 | $0.01 |
Sources: public industry reports 2024–2025, rounded means across all territories and subscription types (master side, before the distribution share). A US premium stream is worth a multiple of an ad-supported stream in an emerging market. Once your real statements arrive, the OGRECORDS™ dashboard automatically switches to your realized rates instead of industry averages. TikTok, Instagram and Facebook are measured from our own statements. All realised rates by store and country are in the Streaming Report 2026.
Calculated with the same average rates as the calculator (USD, master side, before your distributor's share). A guide, not a payout promise.
| Streams | Spotify | Apple Music | Amazon Music | YouTube Music |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1,000 | $3.50 | $8.00 | $4.00 | $1.50 |
| 10,000 | $35.00 | $80.00 | $40.00 | $15.00 |
| 100,000 | $350 | $800 | $400 | $150 |
| 250,000 | $875 | $2,000 | $1,000 | $375 |
| 1,000,000 | $3,500 | $8,000 | $4,000 | $1,500 |
Calculated with the same average rates (master side, before your distributor’s share). Stores pay out in US dollars. What that is in your currency depends on the exchange rate on payout day.
| Platform | Streams for $1,000 | Streams for $10,000 |
|---|---|---|
| Tidal | ≈ 100,000 | ≈ 1,000,000 |
| Apple Music | ≈ 125,000 | ≈ 1,250,000 |
| Amazon Music | ≈ 250,000 | ≈ 2,500,000 |
| Spotify | ≈ 286,000 | ≈ 2,858,000 |
| Deezer | ≈ 286,000 | ≈ 2,858,000 |
| SoundCloud | ≈ 400,000 | ≈ 4,000,000 |
| YouTube Music | ≈ 667,000 | ≈ 6,667,000 |
The rates above are averages. Your own per-stream rate mostly depends on these five things:
Spotify distributes revenue market by market. A stream from a country with many paying subscribers and high subscription prices is worth more than a stream from a market where most listeners are on the free tier or on low-priced plans.
Streams from Premium subscribers feed the pool with subscription money, free-tier streams only with ad revenue. The higher the Premium share of your listeners, the higher your average per stream.
Spotify doesn’t pay a fixed price. It splits a revenue pool by share of streams (the pro-rata model). What counts is your share of all streams in a market and month: if total streams grow faster than the pool, every single stream is worth less.
Since 2024, Spotify only monetises a track once it reaches at least 1,000 streams a year. Below that, a song earns nothing, whatever the average rate looks like.
Every number on this page is the master side before your distributor’s or label’s share. How much of it reaches your account depends on your contract: often only a fraction on a label deal, everything after the commission on a revenue share.
Spotify does not pay a fixed amount per stream. A market’s subscription and ad revenue goes into a pool that is distributed proportionally to streams. Your “price per stream” is an average that fluctuates daily. That is why 1,000 streams from Germany (lots of premium subscriptions) earn noticeably more than 1,000 streams from markets with ad-supported listeners. The often-quoted $0.003–0.004 per stream is exactly that: a global mean, not a price list.
On top of that, every stream pays two rights. The master side (the recording) is accounted by your music distributor; those are the numbers in the table above. The composition side (songwriting) runs separately through collecting societies and your publisher (see mechanical royalties). If you have only collected the master side, the second pot is still sitting there.
The biggest lever for more streaming income is not a higher rate but your platform mix: Apple Music pays roughly double Spotify’s rate per stream, Tidal almost triple. If you only promote Spotify, you are optimizing for the lowest rate. Full store coverage (at OGRECORDS™, 38+ DSPs from one upload) plus clean royalty splits for everyone involved gets more out of the same songs.
And your distributor’s model decides how much of it reaches you: with a yearly subscription you pay even in months without earnings; with revenue share, your distributor only earns when you do. OGRECORDS™ takes 10%, with no base fee and up to 100% payout in your first three months. What that means for your numbers is on /pricing. And if you need plannable money for the next step: an advance on your royalties turns future streams into today’s budget.
Same songs, better deal: 38+ DSPs from one upload, a 10% revenue share instead of a subscription, payouts without waiting periods, and your masters stay yours.
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