Global download sales of Summer are unknown. It’s a million-dollar hit on Spotify, at least, since these figures don’t include payments for streams of the track on YouTube (42.7m plays of the audio-only version and another 189.1m of the actual video) or other streaming services. Or, if you take the mid-point between the two per-stream amounts: around $1.16m (around £706k). That means a payout of between $964k and $1.35m so far. Those figures cover payments to labels, publishers and distributors, who then pass them on to artists and songwriters.Īccording to the stats shown on his Spotify profile, Harris’ Summer has been played 160,753,376 times, at the time of writing. Spotify published its royalty payouts formula in 2013, including the claim that its average “per stream” payout is between $0.006 and $0.0084. But we can at least calculate roughly how much those rightsholders were paid for streams of the song. The short answer: nobody knows, because the exact amount will depend on the terms of his label and publishing contracts.

Streaming music service Spotify says the aptly-named Summer by Calvin Harris was its “song of the summer” this year, after its users streamed the track more than 160m times since its release in June.Īnnounced as part of a wider release about summer hits on the service – Harris beat Ariana Grande and Iggy Azalea’s Problem to top spot on Spotify’s chart – the feat becomes more interesting when you dig in to how much money Summer’s streams made for Harris.

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