It Goes To The Artist worthbuilding.org

Your money goes to who you actually played.

Not a fraction of a cent from a giant shared pool that mostly pays the ten biggest names. Your subscription, split by your own listening, sent to the people who made the month yours. And you can watch it happen.

Your month, divided honestly

Set your subscription, then adjust how much you played each artist. The money follows your ears.

$12 / month

The number they will not print on the box

$0.003

what a stream pays the people who made it — roughly three tenths of one cent

1,000,000streams to earn about $3,000 — and that is before the label, distributor and publisher take their cut. The artist often sees a third of it.
~786,000streams a month just to clear the US minimum wage from one platform. Almost no one on earth has that audience.
$0.00what most of a catalogue earns, because the pool pays out by global rank: your subscription mostly funds the top 1%, whether or not you ever pressed play on them.

The scandal is not only that the number is small. It is that it is pooled — your money is thrown in with everyone's and paid out by who the world streamed, so the artist you love and played on repeat gets a sliver of a stranger's listening. That is the part this fixes. Your fee follows your ears, and the number stops being a secret.

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User-centric, not pooled.

The usual model throws every subscription into one bucket and pays out by total global streams, so your $12 mostly funds whoever the world streamed most. Here your $12 is yours to allocate, by listening.

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The cut is small and named.

The platform keeps a stated, single-digit percentage to run the pipes. Not thirty percent, not a rights-holder maze. One number, on the page.

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The artist sees the same numbers you do.

Payment is not a quarterly mystery statement. The artist watches the same honest split, per listener, that you watch. Nobody's math is hidden.