What do the streams actually pay?
Nobody publishes a per-stream rate, and the averages you read online are somebody else's numbers. This works from yours — and shows you how to find it in thirty seconds.
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Don't know your rate? Work it out
Open your last distributor statement. Divide what you were paid by the streams it covered — that is your real rate, and it beats any average you can look up.
Streams → money
- Gross
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- You keep
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Money → streams
At the same rate and the same share.
- Streams needed
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Why there is no rate in this page
No streaming service publishes a per-stream rate, because there isn't one. What lands in your account depends on where the listener is, whether they pay for a subscription or listen on the free tier, what the platform earned that month, and what your distributor keeps before it reaches you.
So a figure printed here would be a guess dressed as a fact, and wrong for most people reading it. Your own statement already has the honest number in it — payout divided by streams — and that is the one this page runs on.
Where the share percentage comes from
If you made the song alone and own the recording, your share is 100. Add a feature, a co-writer or a producer taking points and it drops. Thesplits calculator works out who is on what and whether it adds up.
On a BE-TWIIN beat that number is not the thing standing between you and your money: on Full Monetization (buy 1 beat, get 9 free. $129.95) you keep 100% of your royalties. Terms for the single-beat tiers are in the licence contract issued at checkout — see licensing.
A number worth knowing before you plan around it
Run your own goal through the second box before you build a plan on it. Most artists have never actually done that arithmetic, and it changes what you spend money on — a $500 music video against the streams it would take to earn that back is a different conversation once the figure is in front of you.
It is also the argument for volume. One song has to carry everything; ten songs each carry a tenth. If you need beats for that, Beat Tinderfinds ten that fit in about five minutes.