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Apple Music is again the best value per stream accounting

According to The Trichordist, a website of “artists for an ethical and sustainable Internet,” Apple Music is again the best value per stream accounting for nearly 25% of all streaming revenue on only 6% of consumption. In other words, it’s the best value per stream for artists.

Spotify generates the most overall revenue of any streamer (no surprise) at 44% of all streaming revenue on 22% of consumption. The Trichordist says You Tube’s Content ID is the major issue limiting growth contributing only 6% of revenues on over half of all streams, at 51% of total consumption. 

Apple’s per stream rate also stabilizes this year hitting a per stream rate of .0675 which is much closer to where it was two years ago at .00783. The Trichordist’s numbers from 2018 showed a dramatic drop in Apple’s rate at .00495 which the site attributes to an expansion into new territories and a large number of 90 day free accounts that had not matured to fully paid subscribers.

Dennis Sellers
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Dennis Sellers is the editor/publisher of Apple World Today. He’s been an “Apple journalist” since 1995 (starting with the first big Apple news site, MacCentral). He loves to read, run, play sports, and watch movies.