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A streaming royalty calculator is drawing fresh scrutiny to how the two largest on-demand music platforms divide revenue with creators, with analysis attributed to a top law firm indicating that Amazon Music delivers approximately twice the effective royalty rate that Spotify does.
The gap, the analysis suggests, stems from a structural difference: Spotify retains a meaningful share of gross revenue before any creator payment is made, while Amazon Music applies no such cut.
The Revenue-Split Divide The calculator's findings center on the distinction between what platforms collect and what they pass on.
Spotify, the source indicates, takes a materially larger portion of gross revenue as its share, leaving a correspondingly smaller pool for rights-holders and creators.
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