7.1.18 - 7.31.18 Numbers Thread

Congrats @steveaoki, @felixjaehn, @adamlambert with 4 million streams on @spotify for #CantGoHome (Remixes)! 🎉 Now 4,000,998 streams! 🎧 #NowPlaying (17 July 2018) @noisecontroller @crystal_Lake

Some data from Queen

Billboard's 2018 Money Makers: 50 Highest-Paid Musicians
www.billboard.com/photos/8465835/highest-paid-musicians-money-makers



33. Queen & Adam Lambert
Queen’s surviving members own their catalog, which added $4.7 million in sales, streaming and publishing royalties to the tidy sum they make touring with Lambert. The act also generated 640 million streams in 2017, almost double the average of heritage acts listed here. LAST YEAR: N/A

Methodology:
www.billboard.com/articles/business/8466168/highest-paid-musicians-methodology-money-makers-2018

METHODOLOGY: Money Makers was compiled with Nielsen Music and Billboard Boxscore information, using 2017 U.S. data only. All revenue figures cited are Billboard estimates and may not equal the sum of the subcategories due to rounding. Unless otherwise noted, references to streaming totals consist of combined on-demand audio and video streams. References to recording-career totals are the sum of an act’s sales, streaming and publishing earnings. Revenue from featured-artist appearances, merchandising, synchronization and sponsorship is not included. Touring revenue, after the manager’s cut, equals 34 percent of an act’s Boxscore. The top 10 lists for sales royalties were calculated based on physical and digital albums and track sales; streaming royalties consist of on-demand audio and video streams, and estimated royalties from webcasting, SiriusXM and Music Choice.

The following royalty rates were used: album and track sales, 22 percent of retail revenue. If the artists own their masters, the rate used was 66 percent of wholesale. On-demand streaming royalties were calculated using blended audio and video rates of, respectively, $0.0054 and $0.0018 per stream, applied against a 33 percent superstar-artist royalty rate; 50 percent for heritage artists; and 79 percent for artist-owned masters. Further, the statutory subscription per-stream rate of $0.0022 was applied to programmed streams and per-play estimated rates of 74 cents for Music Choice and $30 for SiriusXM. Publishing royalties were estimated using statutory mechanical rates for album and track sales. The Copyright Royalty Board streaming formula produced an average rate of 13.1 percent of streaming revenue, an average of $2.50 per play for hit radio and 60 cents per play for heritage spins and per-play publishing rates of 40 cents for Music Choice, $8.33 for SiriusXM and $0.0003 for programmed streams. A 10 percent manager’s fee was deducted from the resultant artist and publisher royalty pools, and a further 4 percent producer’s fee was deducted from each artist’s royalty pool.

Congrats @adamlambert with 5 million streams on @spotify for #Rumors (feat. @tovelo)! 🎉 Now 5,001,478 streams (+2,017)! 🎧 #NowPlaying (23 July 2018)

Congrats @adamlambert with over 27 million views for #BetterThanIKnowMyself [Official Music Video]! 🎉 Now 27,001,444 views! 🎧 #NowPlaying (27 July 2018)

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