Is There a Pay Per Stream Model?

Many people are arguing for a pay per stream model. It makes sense it's great for indie artists who are often devalued. But for Spotify and all the other streamers, it's not great because it means you cannot control your costs. Music listening may be seasonal. What if during the holidays all we do is listen to Mariah Carey and we listen to her Seven times as much as we listen to all other music throughout the rest of the year? And so they can't control their costs instead what they do is they give out a proportion of their revenues. They don't know exactly how much revenue there's going to be in any given time period either. So from the listener's