


Using Digital Music News’ calculation that one stream earns an average of $0.0049, as well as Music Business Worldwide’s calculation that around half of the revenue goes to the artist, TopDollar ended up estimating Drake’s earnings at over $52 million. This data from TopDollar was based on streams collected up until January 2021 by Kworb, however the actual total number of streams is quite different.Īt the time, TopDollar estimated that the most-streamed artists on Spotify, Drake, had pulled in a total of 21.5 billion streams.

Last year we featured an infographic showing the total earnings of some of the most streamed artists on Spotify. A rough calculation of the figures some of the most-streamed artists have earned on the music streaming platform to date.
