U.S. Music Streaming Royalty Calculator
Enter a number of streams into the calculator, and it will show how much Spotify, Apple Music and Amazon Music pay out to creators and/or rights holders, broken down by category (more on the categories below the calculator).
Music Streaming Royalty Calculator
Number of Streams
By entering below the royalty shares that you own or collect on a track you can estimate the royalty amounts that you will actually receive for any given number of plays after label and publisher/administrator shares have been deducted.
Label Royalties
Song Royalties
after deduction of publisher/administrator share(s)
*Publishers may have direct deals with DSPs that materially alter calculations
and payouts.
**PRO fee deductions have not been included.
Calculating How Much Creators and Rights Holders Make in the United States
The latest update to our Music Streaming Royalty Calculator features an additional variable that allows creators to more accurately calculate their specific share of total royalties based on their contribution to a particular musical recording or composition. This iteration of the calculator still leverages detailed data from direct source payors to deliver more precise, up-to-date and readily accessible streaming revenue information, making Manatt’s calculator the most sophisticated tool of its kind on the market.
Here are the creators and/or rights holders entitled to payments, by color code.
Sound Recording Owners
Mechanicals
Performance
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*Starting with the March 2024 period, Spotify is reporting 98% of subscriptions as “bundles” where only 52% of subscription revenue is attributed to music for purposes of mechanical royalty payments. The amount that “stays with Spotify” reported above is an estimate based on a non-reduced service revenue figure (i.e. our estimate of Spotify service revenue prior to the 48% “bundling” reduction)
**The combined sound recording, mechanical, and performance royalty pools for Amazon Music exceed the reported service revenue.
Rates are updated monthly and correspond to play-activity of three months prior (i.e. calculations in May reflect the rates applicable to January usage).
