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Streaming royalty calculator. Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube and the rest, to the artist's net.
Enter your streams per platform, and the calculator turns them into a gross royalty range using published per-stream estimates for Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube, Amazon Music, Deezer and Tidal. Then set the label or distributor share and the manager commission to see what reaches the artist. Use it as a Spotify royalty calculator on its own by leaving the other platforms at zero. The rates are editable, because the only exact figure is the one on your statement.
Streaming royalty calculator
Per-stream figures are published third-party estimates for 2026, not platform rates, compiled from public reports and reviewed November 6, 2026. Edit the low and high to match your own statements.
Gross royalties
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Artist net
$0
Label or distributor share
$0
Manager commission
$0
How this is calculated
- Gross per platform = streams × per-stream rate, once at the low end and once at the high end of the published range.
- Gross royalties = the sum across platforms, shown as a low to high range.
- Label or distributor share = gross × the percentage you enter. What is left is the artist's royalty.
- Manager commission = the artist's royalty × the manager percentage. Artist net = artist royalty minus the commission.
- Publishing income (the songwriter's side), sync fees, YouTube ad revenue on your own channel and advances are not part of this calculation.
Streams are one income line among several. For how the manager's percentage applies across all of them, use the music manager commission calculator.
Questions people ask
How much does Spotify pay per stream?
Published estimates for 2026 put Spotify at roughly $0.003 to $0.005 per stream. There is no fixed rate: the platform pools subscription and ad revenue by country and pays it out by share of streams, so a stream from a paid subscriber in the US is worth more than a free-tier stream elsewhere. The calculator uses the published range and lets you edit it to match your own statements.
Which streaming platform pays the most per stream?
In published estimates Tidal and Apple Music pay the most per stream, Amazon and Deezer sit in the middle, and Spotify and ad-supported YouTube pay the least. Per-stream rate is only half the picture: Spotify usually delivers far more streams, so for most artists it still produces the most total revenue. Enter your real stream counts per platform and compare the totals, not the rates.
Why does the streaming royalty calculator show a range instead of one number?
Because the per-stream figure changes with the listener's country, the subscription tier, the month and the platform's payout model. Any single number is a blended average that will not match your statement. The low and high ends of the published range bracket what a real statement is likely to show; your distributor or label statement is the only exact figure.
Who gets paid first, and where does the manager's commission come in?
The platform pays the rights holder of the recording: the label, or the distributor on behalf of an independent artist. The label or distributor keeps its share and passes the rest to the artist. The manager's commission is taken on what reaches the artist, which is why it sits last in the calculator. Songwriting royalties (publishing) flow through a separate pipe and are not included here. More on who does what: manager, label, publisher.
How many Spotify streams does it take to earn $1,000?
At the published $0.003 to $0.005 range, about 200,000 to 333,000 streams produce $1,000 in gross royalties before the label or distributor share and before any manager commission. For a signed artist on a typical royalty rate the artist's portion of that $1,000 is much smaller; for an independent artist on a distributor most of it reaches the artist. Set the split in the calculator to see your own figure.
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Last reviewed: November 6, 2026
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