Estimate your potential music streaming royalties across platforms like Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music and YouTube Music.
Adjust your total streams per platform to estimate your earnings.
This Music Royalty Calculator uses average per-stream payout estimates from major
platforms to give you a rough idea of your potential earnings.
Real-world payouts depend on your distributor, country, type of streams (free/premium)
and individual platform deals.
Music streaming revenue varies greatly from artist to artist. Some key factors that affect your royalties:
Your music must be delivered to platforms via a distributor (such as DistroKid, TuneCore, CD Baby etc.) that collects and pays out your royalties.
In order to receive payouts, you must have valid payment information on file with your distributor or label (bank account, PayPal etc.).
You must correctly register your tracks and make sure your metadata (songwriter, composer, ISRC, etc.) is accurate so that royalties are tracked properly.
This is the estimated amount paid per individual stream on each platform (in practice, this is calculated from a total pool of subscription and ad revenue).
For some platforms, payouts are also expressed as earnings per 1000 streams. The per-stream values in this tool correspond to an approximate CPM range.
Consistent releases help grow your monthly listeners and total streams.
Use platforms like Instagram, TikTok and YouTube Shorts to drive listeners to your songs.
Pitch your songs to playlists and editorial teams to boost discovery and streams.
Combine streaming income with merch, live shows and sync/licensing for a healthier music career.
