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Re:Spotify Now Has 15M Paying Users, 60M Overall by unprepare on Monday January 12, 2015 @12:10PM (#8874985)
RJD2's most popular song has more than 17 million streams. Opeths has 500k, the other band you mentioned has a number of songs around 2 million streams. Spotify pays artists based on number of streams, not based on how many followers they have accrued.[1]

So RJD2 should be making significantly more than the bands you mentioned given that his number of streams should represent a larger portion of spotify's total streams.

[1]http://www.spotifyartists.com/spotify-explained/#royalties-i...

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Re:Spotify Now Has 15M Paying Users, 60M Overall by anoonmoose on Monday January 12, 2015 @01:39PM (#8875583)
RJD2's first two albums were done on two different record labels. His more recent two albums were done on his own record label. His songs with a lot of plays were on his first two albums. It's probably his old labels that are making all the money here.
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