SoundCloud will pay independent artists based on listeners, not streams

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On SoundCloud, it's no longer about how many streams you have – it's about how many fans are streaming you.

Starting on April 1, SoundCloud will change the way it pays independent artists, becoming the first major streaming service to implement a so-called “user-centric” payment system.

Under SoundCloud’s “fan-powered” model, if a user paying $10 a month only listens to five artists, those five artists will get an equal split of that $10 — after SoundCloud takes its cut — no matter how many times the user listens to each of them.  

Artists signed to the 3 major record companies, won’t see their payments change next month, because of the licensing deals SoundCloud already has in place with those labels. 

The fan-powered royalties will only apply to artists who upload their music directly through one of SoundCloud’s monetization programs: Premier, Repost, and Repost Select. SoundCloud says it has “nearly 100,000” independent artists earning money through those 3 programs. 
Artists who don’t participate in those special plans will still get paid under the standard pro-rata model.

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[The Z 17,798]

I didn't even know you courn earn money on SoundCloud 

Won't use it to post my music though