• @[email protected]
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    2610 months ago

    My Spotify wrapped had a special message from Weird Al (I know, I have great taste!) with the following:

    “It’s my understanding that I had over 80 million streams on Spotify this year. So if I’m doing the math right, that means I earned $12, so, you know, enough to get myself a nice sandwich at a restaurant. So from the bottom of my heart, thanks for your support. And, uh, thanks for the sandwich.”

    • Bleeping Lobster
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      10 months ago

      Spotify iirc pays $0.003 per stream, so for 80m streams he’s got $24,000.

      If he’s got less than that then he should be directing ire at his label or publisher.

      • @scottywh
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        410 months ago

        Your math is correct.

        Weird Al was exaggerating to make a joke and a point.