Find out roughly what your music earns from streaming. Enter your streams on Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music, YouTube Music, TIDAL, Deezer and YouTube videos, and get an estimated payout range for each platform and in total. Turn it around to see how many streams it takes to make $100, $1,000 or any goal, as a total and per day. Every rate is shown as a range from recent public estimates, because no platform pays a fixed amount per stream: it depends on where your listeners are, free or paid plans and your deal. A plain language guide shows how the money splits between the recording (the master owner, through a distributor or label) and the song (songwriters and publishers, through mechanical and performance royalties). It runs in your browser, needs no sign in and costs nothing.
Recent public estimates put Spotify at about $0.0022 to $0.005 per stream, or roughly $2.20 to $5 for every 1,000 streams. Spotify does not pay a fixed rate: it shares a revenue pool by each track's share of streams, so the real figure depends on your listeners' countries, how many have a paid plan and your deal.
On Spotify, 1 million streams pay an estimated $2,200 to $5,000. On Apple Music the same number would be about $7,000 to $10,000, and on YouTube Music about $700 to $7,100. These are gross estimates for the stream, before any distributor, label or publisher share.
Roughly 200,000 to 455,000 Spotify streams, or about 100,000 to 143,000 Apple Music streams. Switch the calculator to Money to streams to see any goal on every platform, including how many streams a day it takes if the goal is monthly.
In recent estimates TIDAL ($0.0064 to $0.015) and Apple Music ($0.007 to $0.01) pay the most per stream, Amazon Music sits in the middle, and Spotify, Deezer and YouTube Music pay less. Spotify still pays most artists the most in total because far more people listen there.
Two sides. The recording side goes to whoever owns the master, usually through a distributor or a label. The song side goes to the songwriters and publishers as mechanical and performance royalties. As a rough guide the recording gets about 80% of what a stream pays and the song about 20%.
Because no platform publishes a fixed per stream rate. A stream from a paid plan in a high price country pays several times more than a free stream elsewhere, and the pool changes every month. The calculator shows the lowest and highest figures from recent public estimates instead of a precise looking guess.
On Spotify, yes: since April 2024 a track needs at least 1,000 streams in the last 12 months to earn recording royalties. Songwriter royalties are handled separately. Other platforms have no published minimum, though distributors may have payout thresholds of their own.
Yes. It is free, needs no sign in and runs in your browser. Before you sign a distribution, label or publishing deal that decides your share of these royalties, you can run it through Review Music Contract, and to grow your streams, try the Playlist Pitch Cheat Sheet.