Music royalty benchmarks

Streaming Royalty Rates

Name: Streaming royalty rates
Creator: Dynamoi

Dynamoi royalty benchmarks span 24 published platforms and 116 markets through Jun 2026.

Published platforms

RPM, USD per 1k streams

Markets

116

Through

Jun 2026

Source

Ledger

Leading service pages include Spotify, Pandora, and Amazon Music, with country-level RPM rows organized by platform, market, and listener tier. The current high among highlighted rows is Peloton in United Kingdom at $50.05, about 2.4x the highlighted-row median.

Platform RPM Distribution

Median RPM

$0-$0.50

2 / 8.33%

$0.50-$1

2 / 8.33%

$1-$2

2 / 8.33%

$2-$5

10 / 41.67%

$5+

8 / 33.33%

Paid / Free Spread

Largest published multiples

🇲🇬 Madagascar $1.49 $0.0008 1866.1x

🇲🇹 Malta $3.98 $0.0044 905.3x

🇿🇲 Zambia $1.05 $0.0012 874.8x

🇱🇰 Sri Lanka $1.48 $0.0025 591.1x

🇰🇿 Kazakhstan $1.70 $0.0055 309.1x

🇳🇬 Nigeria $0.39 $0.0018 217.2x

🇦🇷 Argentina $1.70 $0.01 123.4x

🇬🇭 Ghana $0.68 $0.0067 100.9x

Regional RPM Bands

Top published row by country

Region	Top row	Median RPM	Range	Markets
North America	🇺🇸 United States Peloton / $47.78	$43.13	$38.48-$47.78	2 markets
Europe	🇬🇧 United Kingdom Peloton / $50.05	$8.36	$0.0006-$50.05	30 markets
Latin America	🇭🇳 Honduras Amazon Music / $9.02	$3.46	$1.93-$9.02	15 markets
Asia Pacific	🇦🇺 Australia Peloton / $47.03	$2.77	$0.0007-$47.03	18 markets
Middle East & Africa	🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates YouTube (Music & Art Tracks) / $9.09	$1.74	$0.0037-$9.09	12 markets
Other markets	🇸🇰 Slovakia YouTube (Music & Art Tracks) / $7.06	$0.68	$0.0003-$7.06	39 markets

Platform Index

Published platforms

Platform	Top market	Markets	Top published RPM
Spotify	🇮🇸 Iceland - Paid - Streaming	95	$7.40
Pandora	🇺🇸 United States - Paid - Streaming	1	$3.75
Amazon Music	🇲🇹 Malta - Paid - Streaming	24	$11.66
TikTok	🇺🇸 United States - Free - Ad-supported	98	$0.02
Apple Music	🇨🇭 Switzerland - Paid - Streaming	59	$16.35
Peloton	🇬🇧 United Kingdom - Paid - Streaming	5	$50.05
YouTube (Music & Art Tracks)	🇳🇴 Norway - Paid - Streaming	50	$23.51
YouTube (Content ID)	🇨🇭 Switzerland - Free - Ad-supported	49	$11.00
AllSaints Music Group	🇨🇳 China - Free - Ad-supported	1	$2.24
Tencent Music	🇨🇳 China - Free - Ad-supported	1	$0.52
Deezer	🇬🇧 United Kingdom - Paid - Streaming	5	$14.46
NetEase	🇨🇳 China - Paid - Streaming	1	$0.94
MediaNet	🇺🇸 United States - Paid - Streaming	1	$5.75
TIDAL	🇺🇸 United States - Paid - Streaming	5	$8.83
Meta	🇺🇸 United States - Free - Ad-supported	3	$0.07
TDC Play	🇩🇰 Denmark - Paid - Streaming	1	$9.72
Genie Music	🇰🇷 South Korea - Paid - Streaming	1	$5.54
Kakao M	🇰🇷 South Korea - Paid - Streaming	1	$3.14
Line	🇯🇵 Japan - Paid - Streaming	1	$5.96
Gabb Music	🇺🇸 United States - Paid - Streaming	1	$24.04
Anghami	🇪🇬 Egypt - Paid - Streaming	1	$2.58
Soundtrack Your Brand	🇺🇸 United States - Paid - Streaming	1	$1.47
KKBOX	🇹🇼 Taiwan - Paid - Streaming	1	$4.44
Fizy	🇹🇷 Türkiye - Paid - Streaming	1	$2.24

Canonical Royalty Route Map

USD per 1k streams

Highest royalty routes

Peloton 🇬🇧 United Kingdom - Paid - Streaming $50.05 Peloton 🇺🇸 United States - Paid - Streaming $47.78 Peloton 🇦🇺 Australia - Paid - Streaming $47.03 Peloton 🇩🇪 Germany - Paid - Streaming $46.67 Peloton 🇨🇦 Canada - Paid - Streaming $38.48 Gabb Music 🇺🇸 United States - Paid - Streaming $24.04 YouTube (Music & Art Tracks) 🇳🇴 Norway - Paid - Streaming $23.51 YouTube (Music & Art Tracks) 🇸🇪 Sweden - Paid - Streaming $20.79

Lowest royalty routes

TikTok 🇱🇻 Latvia - Free - Ad-supported $0.0002 TikTok 🇹🇬 Togo - Free - Ad-supported $0.0003 TikTok 🇳🇮 Nicaragua - Free - Ad-supported $0.0003 TikTok 🇿🇲 Zambia - Free - Ad-supported $0.0003 TikTok 🇬🇭 Ghana - Free - Ad-supported $0.0003 TikTok 🇰🇬 Kyrgyzstan - Free - Ad-supported $0.0004 TikTok 🇰🇪 Kenya - Free - Ad-supported $0.0004 TikTok 🇵🇫 French Polynesia - Free - Ad-supported $0.0004

Source

Dynamoi royalty ledger

Method

Aggregated, anonymized RPM

Tiers

Paid - Streaming / Free - Ad-supported

Methodology License