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# Indie Distributor Says Spotify Payments “Growing Nicely”, Shares Stats
- URL: https://www.hypebot.com/indie-distributor-says-spotify-payments-growing-nicely-shares-stats/
- Published: 2012-06-11T13:42:44.000Z
- Updated: 2012-06-11T13:42:44.000Z
- Description: Payments from Spotify to independent digital music distributor RouteNote are growing steadily and now approach 20% of overall royalties, according to stats released by the company. "I’m a firm believer. Continue reading [https://www.hypebot.com/hypebot/2012/06/indie-distributor-says-spotify-payment
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Payments from **Spotify** to independent digital music distributor RouteNote are growing steadily and now approach 20% of overall royalties, according to stats released by the company. "I’m a firm believer that Spotify is a great innovation and that its where music consumption is heading," said UK based **[RouteNote](http://routenote.com/?ref=hypebot.com)** exec Steven Finch. "It has also been shown that Spotify has helped to increase music download sales and not cannibalize them, and this is what we have seen here." **THE STATS:**  

Spotify as a percentage of RouteNote’s overall royalties:

- Q3 2010 = 2.71%
- Q4 2010 = 5.55%
- Q1 2011 = 5.07%
- Q2 2011 = 7.34%
- Q3 2011 = 8.84%
- Q4 2011 = 11.18%
- Q1 2012 = 18.55%

"Additionally, the actual royalties numbers per play are increasing month by month. These per play numbers are a lot higher than you would expect to see when you received royalties from YouTube ($2.00/1000) or even basic advertising royalties ($1.00/1000)."

In Scandinavia, where Spotify has operated the longest, some music companies report payments from the music streamer account for 40% of royalties received.