For each song listened to by an Apple Music user, the Apple company pays a certain amount of money to the record company or performer who owns the copyright of that song.
If you knew this and you ever wondered how much money Apple pays for each listen, or if you found out now and are curious, well a foreign publication managed to find out exactly how much Apple pays for listens in 42 countries on the planet.
According to this publication, the global pay-per-listen average is $0.005643, i.e. half a cent sent to the record label or artist every time a person listens to a song available in Apple Music.
The biggest payments for listening are made in Denmark, where Apple has to pay 1.8 cents every time a song is listened to, the amount being 3 times higher than the one paid in the USA by the people from Apple.
The lowest amount paid per listen is in Kenya, there 0.0009169 dollars departing from Apple's accounts for every action of this kind, so an artist should register billions of listens to feel that he has earned something from his work.
In Romaina, the price per listen is 0.005423 dollars, that is half a cent, so that an artist earns 1 dollar for every 200 listens made in Apple Music, the amount being ridiculously small, as it is in most of the world at the moment.
Audio streaming services are increasingly popular, and these prices paid by Apple are similar or even identical if we are talking about Spotify or Google Music because they are all businesses and must generate profit for their founders.
| United States | $0.006005 |
| United Kingdom | $0.01070 |
| Japan | $0.007262 |
| Sweden | $0.01197 |
| France | $0.005086 |
| Germany | $0.009078 |
| Canada | $0.006171 |
| Australia | $0.007710 |
| Brazil | $0.007114 |
| Russia | $0.001790 |
| Denmark | $0.01888 |
| Spain | $0.01303 |
| Italy | $0.003665 |
| Mexico | $0.002309 |
| The Netherlands | $0.003418 |
| Malaysia | $0.000728 |
| norway | $0.01476 |
| New Zealand | $0.004815 |
| Singapore | $0.005493 |
| Thailand | $0.002217 |
| Ukraine | $0.001739 |
| Belgium | $0.006893 |
| Belarus | $0.007848 |
| Chile | $0.007253 |
| Colombia | $0.002245 |
| Czech Republic | $0.006548 |
| Ecuador | $0.001055 |
| Finland | $0.002342 |
| Greece | $0.01040 |
| Hong Kong | $0.001422 |
| Guatemala | $0.001089 |
| Indonesia | $0.003364 |
| India | $0.001921 |
| Kazakhstan | $0.00958 |
| Kenya | $0.0009169 |
| lithuania | $0.001505 |
| latvia | $0.008634 |
| poland | $0.003336 |
| Peru | $0.001805 |
| Romania | $0.005423 |
| Slovakia | $0.008969 |
| Slovenia | $0.003341 |
