-you release a 15 song album
-every song gets streamed 900 times
-spotify (used to) pay ~ $.005 per stream
-13,500 streams x $.005 = $67.50
-you have 5 albums like this, so $337.50
-now, you see none of that money and it gets rolled up to the top into a pop star's paycheck
-???
The income pyramid in streaming is already steep cause of algorithms, playlists and payola. And now, new Spotify accounting means 82.7% of tracks on the platform will not be paid at all - any money those tracks earn will be redirected to those at the top instead. A regressive tax