How the Money from a Single Stream of a Song Gets Paid Out [INFOGRAPHIC]

July 15, 2015 Alan Cross 0 Comments 0 min read

How much is a single listen of a song worth on a streaming music service? Billboard (via RAIN) breaks things down this way in a handy infographic. (These figures are for the US only, by the way.)

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