Then, that artist will earn 10 cents (and that’s before distributors and publishers take their cut). So, let’s say you listen to a 10-track record one time on a platform that pays about one cent per stream, like Apple Music. As described by Deezer, a streaming service that uses UCPS, this system helps individual fans more directly and transparently support their favorite artists, since their subscription fee is distributed to the artists they listen to.
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This model is an example of a user-centric payment system (UCPS), which is generally favored by artists. Tidal told TechCrunch that it also struck similar deals with independent distributors like CD Baby, Equity Distribution, Stem, Symphonic, Tunecore and Vydia. That percentage shrinks if you’re paying for your subscription through a service that takes a cut, like the Apple or Google app stores.
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If you’re subscribed to Tidal’s HiFi Plus plan - which costs $19.99 per month - up to 10% (or about $2) of your monthly subscription fee will be distributed to your most-listened-to artist (so long as that artist uses DistroKid).
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This partnership foreshadows a larger pivot from Tidal toward experimenting with streaming payout models that are thought to distribute funds more equitably to musicians who don’t get millions of streams on any given day (AKA, people who aren’t Taylor Swift or Lil Nas X).
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Tidal and DistroKid, a popular independent music distributor, teamed up last week to introduce a direct artist payments system.