
Individual plans will start costing an extra $1 per month, while family plans see a $2/month price hike. Now, of course, Apple Music has begun a price increase.

The Cupertino-based tech giant also stressed that the number of recording artists generating more than $50,000 per year had more than doubled. Last year, it revealed that it paid an average of $0.01 per stream to artists for individual paid plans in 2020. Some Transparency Exists in Royalty AmountsĪpple has recently become much more transparent in how much it pays in royalties for tracks on Apple Music. Recently, an independent music producer posted a video outlining just how big the discrepancy is between what Apple Music pays artists and how much Spotify pays them. Some pay the musicians much more than others do, in fact. Not all streaming music services are equal, for listeners or for artists.
