YouTube halved the amount it pays musicians per stream between 2014 and 2015

Although music views on YouTube rose dramatically, artists were receiving less revenue in 2015 than they were in 2014 per stream.
The video streaming site essentially halved the value of a single stream from $0.002 in 2014 to $0.001 in 2015 according to Midia Research, via the Financial Times.
A total of $740m was paid to artists in 2015, a net increase of 15 per cent – but when taking into account the fact that streams on YouTube and Sony and Universal Music were up by 132 per cent t