Music royalty benchmarks

Streaming Royalty Rates

Name: Streaming royalty rates
Creator: Dynamoi

Dynamoi royalty benchmarks span 23 published platforms and 120 markets through May 2026. 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 $49.68, about 2.5x the highlighted-row median.

Published platforms

RPM, USD per 1k streams

Markets

120

Through

May 2026

Source

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Platform RPM Distribution

Median RPM

$0-$0.50

2 / 8.7%

$0.50-$1

2 / 8.7%

$1-$2

2 / 8.7%

$2-$5

11 / 47.83%

$5+

6 / 26.09%

Paid / Free Spread

Largest published multiples

🇲🇬 Madagascar $1.49 $0.0008 1858.0x

🇲🇹 Malta $3.94 $0.0037 1066.1x

🇿🇲 Zambia $1.06 $0.0012 880.4x

🇱🇰 Sri Lanka $1.49 $0.0036 414.8x

🇳🇬 Nigeria $0.38 $0.0018 213.2x

🇰🇿 Kazakhstan $1.71 $0.01 170.5x

🇦🇷 Argentina $1.72 $0.01 123.5x

🇬🇭 Ghana $0.68 $0.0066 103.4x

Regional RPM Bands

Top published row by country

Region	Top row	Median RPM	Range	Markets
North America	🇺🇸 United States Peloton / $47.27	$42.82	$38.37-$47.27	2 markets
Europe	🇬🇧 United Kingdom Peloton / $49.68	$8.19	$0.0005-$49.68	31 markets
Latin America	🇭🇳 Honduras Amazon Music / $8.94	$3.51	$1.92-$8.94	15 markets
Asia Pacific	🇦🇺 Australia Peloton / $46.76	$2.38	$0.0004-$46.76	20 markets
Middle East & Africa	🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates YouTube (Music & Art Tracks) / $9.07	$1.98	$0.0007-$9.07	13 markets
Other markets	🇸🇰 Slovakia YouTube (Music & Art Tracks) / $7.06	$0.73	$0.0003-$7.06	39 markets

Platform Index

Published platforms

Platform	Top market	Markets	Top published RPM
Spotify	🇮🇸 Iceland - Paid - Streaming	98	$7.38
Pandora	🇺🇸 United States - Paid - Streaming	1	$3.75
Amazon Music	🇲🇹 Malta - Paid - Streaming	24	$11.67
TikTok	🇺🇸 United States - Free - Ad-supported	98	$0.02
Apple Music	🇨🇭 Switzerland - Paid - Streaming	60	$16.38
Peloton	🇬🇧 United Kingdom - Paid - Streaming	5	$49.68
YouTube (Music & Art Tracks)	🇳🇴 Norway - Paid - Streaming	51	$23.49
YouTube (Content ID)	🇨🇭 Switzerland - Free - Ad-supported	49	$11.15
AllSaints Music Group	🇨🇳 China - Free - Ad-supported	1	$2.25
Meta	🇺🇸 United States - Free - Ad-supported	20	$0.06
Tencent Music	🇨🇳 China - Free - Ad-supported	1	$0.51
Deezer	🇬🇧 United Kingdom - Paid - Streaming	5	$14.21
NetEase	🇨🇳 China - Paid - Streaming	1	$0.93
MediaNet	🇺🇸 United States - Paid - Streaming	1	$5.72
TIDAL	🇺🇸 United States - Paid - Streaming	5	$9.03
TDC Play	🇩🇰 Denmark - Paid - Streaming	1	$9.71
Genie Music	🇰🇷 South Korea - Paid - Streaming	1	$5.45
Kakao M	🇰🇷 South Korea - Paid - Streaming	1	$3.34
Line	🇯🇵 Japan - Paid - Streaming	1	$6.00
Anghami	🇪🇬 Egypt - Paid - Streaming	1	$2.60
Soundtrack Your Brand	🇺🇸 United States - Paid - Streaming	1	$1.47
KKBOX	🇹🇼 Taiwan - Paid - Streaming	1	$4.53
Fizy	🇹🇷 Türkiye - Paid - Streaming	1	$2.21