How Much Do Streaming Services Pay in Mechanical and Performance Royalties?

There is no per stream rate for anything. It's money that the streaming services bring in from subscriptions, subscriptions and from ads. So mechanical and performance royalties are only earned for the songwriters, not the artists, not the record label. That money gets calculated internally based on all the streams on the platform and then the money gets divvied up. I think we should be on a, on a user generated royalties, which is like, I pay $10 a month for my streaming subscription service. I only listen to you the entire month. You should get all my money.

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