Where do you get those numbers from?
I'm a self published artist. I had 150k streams on Spotify last year. I only earned roughly $450. There's no label or other middleman here taking a cut. Spotify is just cheap.
It's somewhere around $3.5/1k streams - you're not exactly super far off their estimate either, though. It varies a bit based on (listener, or artist?) regions too, I believe.
Where do you get those numbers from? I'm a self published artist. I had 150k streams on Spotify last year. I only earned roughly $450. There's no label or other middleman here taking a cut. Spotify is just cheap.
They say: $4 / 1,000 = $0.004 per streamed track.
You say: $450 / 150,000 = $0.003 per streamed track.
The two sets of numbers don't seem so far apart that the discrepancy cannot be explained by rounding errors.
Snoop's number was $0.045 per thousand plays.
ansc's number was $4 per thousand plays.
Your number is $3 per thousand plays.
It sounds like you basically agree with ansc. While Spotify might be cheap, that cheapness is not the problem Snoop is having.
It's somewhere around $3.5/1k streams - you're not exactly super far off their estimate either, though. It varies a bit based on (listener, or artist?) regions too, I believe.
That's not too far off, is it? 150 * $4 = $600 ≈ $450.