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Is popular music getting worse?: Working musicians
$4,000 for a million streams I released an album last year. Twelve songs. Took me two years to write, four months to record. My best track hit 200,000 streams. That earned me about $800 before the distributor’s cut. After the cut: roughly $560. My studio time cost $3,200....