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Streaming has no fixed per-stream rate
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Spotify does not pay a fixed amount for each stream. It calculates payments to rightsholders using their share of total listening (streamshare); what reaches an artist also depends on agreements with a label or distributor. So a universal claim of “$23 per thousand streams” is misleading.
