{"id":144,"date":"2022-08-22T15:10:29","date_gmt":"2022-08-22T15:10:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/?p=144"},"modified":"2022-08-22T15:12:48","modified_gmt":"2022-08-22T15:12:48","slug":"how-much-would-composers-earn-today-on-spotify","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/2022\/08\/22\/how-much-would-composers-earn-today-on-spotify\/","title":{"rendered":"How Much Would Composers Earn Today On Spotify?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-152\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2022\/08\/Composers-Chart-no-title.jpg\" alt=\"How much composers would earn today on spotify. \" width=\"1200\" height=\"978\" \/><\/p>\n<p>For fun, we wondered how much historic music composers would be paid today for their steams.<\/p>\n<p>Using the $0.0037 Spotify per stream payout as well as Spotify\u2019s reported listener stats by artist, the three top legacy composer earners would be:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>J. S. Bach ($268K)<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Beethoven ($237K)<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Mozart ($235K)<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h3><strong>Perspective\u00a0<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>It\u2019s no secret that the business of music-making <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/pro\/features\/spotify-million-artists-royalties-1038408\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">remains a challenge<\/a> for regular artists.<\/p>\n<p>According to a 2020 report by <a href=\"https:\/\/mobilesyrup.com\/2021\/03\/18\/spotify-how-much-artists-make-platform\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Maple Syrup<\/a>, 184,500 artists made over $1K on Spotify. Only 42,100 made over $10K. Further down, 13,400 people made over $50K and over 7,000 people made over $100K. Only 870 artists worldwide made over $1M.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Lonely at the top\u00a0<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Spotify&#8217;s top three artists in 2021:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>Drake ($114M)<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Bad Bunny (87.8M)<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Ed Sheran ($87.7M)<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ever wonder how much composers like Beethoven, Bach and Mozart would earn for their streams on Spotify? We have the answer. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":145,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[2,14],"tags":[13],"yst_prominent_words":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2022\/08\/Composers-Earn-Today-On-Spotify.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":153,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144\/revisions\/153"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}