[phyller]

You guys are missing the point. It might be the all-time highest payout from Spotify. Because of Spotify, many many people will not buy the song. So what once would have been millions of dollars in revenue is much less, and the entire music industry is splitting a rapidly shrinking pie. Yea the very very top will still make enough money to live in big houses and drive big cars, but the middling people can't live off their take. So in order to make it you have to become an international sensation.

[Kalium]

You're absolutely right. There's no way a regular, middling-fame performer can live off of revenue like this alone.

Perhaps it might be worth considering that this signals a model that could be re-thought to the benefit of the artist?

[lkdjjdjjjdskjd]

Most people who want to already bought the song. Then they can play their CD forever without paying another cent.