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Mariah Carey's record-breaking day shows how little musicians make from Spotify
The pop star's Christmas song has been streamed more than 10 million times today. Relatively speaking, there won't be a huge payout.
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How much would she have made from her song being played on the radio?
Apparently only the writers get money if a song is played on the radio, no the artist, but as a cowriter I guess she would get something. Source
Also, that source makes it sound like she's really getting ripped off by the royalty companies like BMI and ASCAP who are collecting two sources of royalty from streamers.