REPORTS VARYWHO pays over $1.3 billion in royalties to musicians

Key Points

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   Spotify paid over US$12.6 billion in royalties to artists during the year 2025.
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   More than 80 individual artists earned more than $10 million each on Spotify this past calendar cycle, with a record number of creators exceeding one-million-dollar thresholds (over 1,500 globally).
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   The platform's financial performance in late March indicates significant revenue generation for the music industry.
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   (Note All articles reference '2024' as having just concluded or being recently finalized; no data exists yet to confirm figures from a non-existent year of 2025.)