Taproot drummer Jarrod Montague has supplied some perception into precisely how a lot a musician makes by means of streaming companies in a social media submit breaking down his streaming royalty payouts for the final quarter of 2023.

While streaming has turn into one of the first methods through which audiences eat music, it has been a frequent speaking level amongst artists since streaming got here to prominence that the monetary compensation hasn’t measured as much as what you may count on.

In his posting, Montague posts his 2023 streaming royalties, telling followers, “You all have enjoyed seeing these in the past: my royalty payouts from various outlets for Taproot music played between Oct and Dec 2023. I made $0.01 on Snapchat! My kids will be so proud. Thanks for listening!”

About Taproot

The Michigan-based band Taproot broke on the music scene with so much of buzz behind their 2000 debut album Gift on the peak of the nu-metal period. With a stable exhibiting off the primary album, their sophomore set Welcome earned them their highest chart place, peaking at No. 17 in 2002. Their two successive albums within the 2000s – Blue Sky Research and Our Long Road Home – peaked at No. 33 and No. 65 respectively, earlier than their subsequent two albums noticed a decline exterior of the Top 100.

They may by no means have been the most important of bands within the style, however have remained a gradual recording and touring band into the early 2010s. The final decade has seen sporadic exercise, and in 2023 they launched their first album in 11 years.

At current, they’ve over 263,000 month-to-month listeners on their Spotify channel.

In the previous, Montague, who had left the band in 2008 solely to return for visitor appearances and rejoining the band in 2023, had shared that the group had a 30/30/20/20 break up on royalties with the 2 major songwriters incomes the bigger share.

Who’s Paying What?

The small streaming returns narrative has been circulating for a while, however Montague’s sharing of his ASCAP royalty returns for October to December of final 12 months exhibits how minimal issues can really be.

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As the drummer beforehand acknowledged, the $0.01 from Snapchat is the low finish of the spectrum. A $58.30 sum from Apple subscriptions was the excessive mark. Only two sources of earnings on the checklist resulted in payouts of over $5,00, whereas 17 of the 27 listed got here in at underneath $1.00.