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Some additional data:

"Streaming music payments: how much do artists really receive?" http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/aug/19/zoe-keatin...

"My $treaming Data" (from Zoe Keating) http://zoekeating.tumblr.com/post/16086277627/my-treaming-da...

    Total streams for 1 month: 6926

    Total amount earned: $32.07

    Average price paid per stream after CDBaby’s 9% cut:

     Spotify $0.003339
     Rhapsody $0.0091
     Napster $0.015224
Rhapsody has a fixed stream rate. I don’t know the respective formulas for Spotify or Napster, but price-per-stream varies:

     Napster: $0.01658813 to $0.01721973
     Spotify: $0.00102187 to $0.01158124

Some prior discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4330920


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