WTF?

We need to talk about singer Lily Allen’s feet

Well, we really don’t, but Lily Allen is making all kinds of news with her feet, specifically her OnlyFans account where she sells pictures of them. She says she makes more money from that than she does from Spotify streams.

Music Ally ran the numbers.

  • Lily charges US$10 a month on OnlyFans of which she keeps US$8 (OnlyFans takes a 20% cut).
  • She has about 851,000 daily streams on Spotify, which works out to about 25.5 million a month. That should generated $122,000 a month, but all that doesn’t go to Lily. Labels and publishers take their cuts first–and those percentages are substantial. A reasonable guess is that once everything is said and done, she earns about US$8,000 a month before taxes.
  • That, however, won’t be her entire income. Lily’s music streams in other places plus she still sells music and plays live.

No shaming here. Just reporting the news.

Alan Cross

is an internationally known broadcaster, interviewer, writer, consultant, blogger and speaker. In his 40+ years in the music business, Alan has interviewed the biggest names in rock, from David Bowie and U2 to Pearl Jam and the Foo Fighters. He’s also known as a musicologist and documentarian through programs like The Ongoing History of New Music.

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