Streaming Music Is Big Business — So Why Do Classical Musicians Get So Little Money From It?

The payout to a musician from a Spotify subscriber is about $.003 per stream — and only one-fifteenth of that tiny figure for a stream on YouTube. What’s more, any new release of, say, the Bach Cello Suites “will be in direct competition with 133 other cellists, from Rostropovich to du Pré to Yo-Yo Ma. [It] will also be in competition with every recording in every genre on the planet.” – Bachtrack