This yr’s Spotify Wrapped launched on Wednesday. Whereas Bizarre Al’s Wrapped video message to followers joked that he’d made sufficient cash from 80 million streams on the service to purchase a sandwich, a brand new report from Billboard reveals how profitable Spotify has been for the service’s top-streamed artist. Swift’s royalties from Spotify are estimated to come back to $101 million in 2023.
At 26.1 billion streams, her recorded music royalties quantity to $97 million, in keeping with the publication’s royalty calculator. With the remainder of December nonetheless forward, she’s estimated to make $101 million by the top of the yr, and with publishing income added, $131 million from the app alone. Swift, who pulled her music from Spotify for a couple of years starting in 2014, had extra streams in 2023 than any single artist in a yr. Following her within the High 5 are Unhealthy Bunny, the Weeknd, Drake, and Peso Pluma.