Andrew Paul is Popular Science's staff writer covering tech news. Previously, he was a regular contributor to The A.V. Club and Input, and has had recent work featured by Rolling Stone, Fangoria, GQ, Slate, NBC, as well as McSweeney's Internet Tendency. He lives outside Indianapolis.
ArticleBody:Musicians have long criticized streaming services for their abysmal revenue sharing programs. In 2021, for example, as much as 97 percent of Spotify’s over 6 million listed artists earned less than $1,000. Last year, the company announced a new system offering fractions of a cent per track, all of which is now based on even more stringent rules.
For example, 1,040 bots spread over 52 VPN-shielded cloud service accounts streaming around 636 songs per day added up to an estimated 661,440 streams every 24 hours. Estimating that an average royalty was half-a-cent per stream, Smith purportedly tallied the whole enterprise out to $3,307.20 per day, $99,216 per month, and ultimately $1,207,128 per year. Here’s where it got even craftier—any random song racking up a billion streams would likely flag a streaming platform’s monitoring systems.
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