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		fao_ on June 28, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Carving out a niche as a small artist on Spotify Right, but the way it was phrased was that it was the CD that was being listened to. I was curious.

mattmcknight on June 28, 2020 [–]

Yeah, I was saying if you bought a CD you would pay $15 for 10 tracks, or $1.50 per track. You would have to listen to that CD 471 times for the cost per listen per track to reach what Spotify pays the artist per stream.

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