I'm old school. I don't get the hype around streams. Spotify says it pays labels and publishers between $0.006 and $0.0084 per stream. A Guardian report suggests that the average payment a signed artist gets after their label takes its share is a mere $0.001128. I have nothing against streams I just wish someone could shed more light on why the pay to artists and writers are so low? Also, when I go on Spotify the new songs I stream are free (I do not have a subscription). Any old song I want to stream I go to youtube to listen or watch the video free. Is there something I am missing.