Pays to Be Popular: Breaking Down Spotify’s 2020 Artist Payouts

If Spotify were a country, its population of 4.47 million acts with at least one monthly listener would rank just above Panama as the 128th largest in the world.
Economic power is highly concentrated, though. In Spotify’s home country of Sweden, those in the 80th percentile of income make 4.1 times as much as those in the 20th percentile, according to the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, while in South Africa — the OECD-tracked country with the highest inequali