{"id":2428,"slug":"per-1000-stream-rate-measured-vs-audiomack-estimate","title":"Per-1,000-stream payout: measured platform rates versus the full spread of Audiomack’s unofficial estimates, 2024-2026","source":"Computed from per-stream-rate-by-platform-2024-duetti and audiomack-amp-program-terms-2026","source_url":"","source_type":"computed","method":"Merges two registered datasets to put measured figures next to an unmeasured one. Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube and Amazon Music rows are Duetti's stated 2024 global payout rate per 1,000 streams, taken unchanged from per-stream-rate-by-platform-2024-duetti; because that is a single annual figure, low, mid and high are identical and spread_ratio is 1. The Audiomack row takes the lowest and highest per-stream figures across every third-party estimate recorded in audiomack-amp-program-terms-2026, spanning the general estimate and Legitloaded's audience-segmented estimates, and converts them to a per-1,000-stream basis by multiplying by 1,000: $0.0001 per stream (Legitloaded, global\/mixed audience) to $0.005 per stream (the general estimate's ceiling). Mid is the arithmetic midpoint of that full range; spread_ratio is high divided by low. A spread_ratio of 50 is not a finding about Audiomack's actual payout variance, it is a property of how little the unofficial trackers agree with each other; Audiomack does not publish a low or high figure itself, so there is no measured spread to compare it against.","unit":"usd_per_1000_streams","license":"Afrobeats Wire's compilation and analysis are licensed CC BY 4.0. Rights in the underlying source data remain with the source named above.","confidence":"medium","retrieved":"2026-08-24 04:47:47","n":5,"first_party":0,"columns":[{"key":"platform","label":"Platform","type":"text"},{"key":"low_usd_per_1000","label":"Low, US$ per 1,000 streams","type":"number"},{"key":"mid_usd_per_1000","label":"Mid, US$ per 1,000 streams","type":"number"},{"key":"high_usd_per_1000","label":"High, US$ per 1,000 streams","type":"number"},{"key":"spread_ratio","label":"High divided by low","type":"number"},{"key":"disclosure_type","label":"Disclosure type","type":"text"}],"rows":[{"platform":"Amazon Music","low_usd_per_1000":8.8,"mid_usd_per_1000":8.8,"high_usd_per_1000":8.8,"spread_ratio":1,"disclosure_type":"Measured (Duetti, 2024)"},{"platform":"Apple Music","low_usd_per_1000":6.2,"mid_usd_per_1000":6.2,"high_usd_per_1000":6.2,"spread_ratio":1,"disclosure_type":"Measured (Duetti, 2024)"},{"platform":"YouTube","low_usd_per_1000":4.8,"mid_usd_per_1000":4.8,"high_usd_per_1000":4.8,"spread_ratio":1,"disclosure_type":"Measured (Duetti, 2024)"},{"platform":"Spotify","low_usd_per_1000":3,"mid_usd_per_1000":3,"high_usd_per_1000":3,"spread_ratio":1,"disclosure_type":"Measured (Duetti, 2024)"},{"platform":"Audiomack","low_usd_per_1000":0.1,"mid_usd_per_1000":2.55,"high_usd_per_1000":5,"spread_ratio":50,"disclosure_type":"Unofficial estimates, not measured, disagree by 50x"}]}