Streaming solved and created a new complaint.
Listeners now pay, but most artists still earn very little.
The reason lies in how the pool of money is divided.
Each platform collects and shares them by total play count.
A listener who plays one album all month funds whoever is most streamed globally.
Under a model, their fee would follow their own listening.
Trials show that shifts money towards smaller .
Platforms have been slow to adopt it.
The change is complicated to compute and unpopular with large .
are also split before the artist sees anything.
Labels, and collecting societies each take a defined share.
An artist who owns their own rights keeps several times more per play.