GOOGLEPLAY
You need 172,206 plays per month
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SPOTIFY
You need just over 1 million plays per month
This is Suede's most popular track by far, which has 16 million streams (its popularity during the Britpop era, I for instance heard it once being played in a pub along with other well-known tracks by a 21-year-old bartender, showing it is still known to some younger music listeners)...
This means this track pays them the average U
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YOUTUBE
You need over 4 million plays
The Suede YouTube Channel has seen a huge proliferation of videos, including Audio Only videos, Live Performances and for their most recent album "Track by Track" videos.
THE CALCULATOR
Suede's biggest hit comes up as bringing 64,000 dollars
However, that is only due to it being to popular recognition before.
They rely on that and their original audience buying vinyl, merchandise
Plus, Brett Anderson gets even more revenue due to his solo catalogue and recently publishing a memoir up the point of Suede's formation and success.
For example, Suede's newest album, the most-streamed song, Outsiders, has in the course of just over two years won them this amount:
David Bowie, an artist of much higher statue:
Rihanna, with her single being one of the most popular songs of the year:
As one can see, it is never older songs that are top on streaming, it will always be the last four to five years in competition with each other. So Chris Anderson's Long Tail theory and Simon Reynolds's theory of music audiences being more and more does not apply to revenue on a mass, global scale. This could also be evident of how older audiences still use vinyl and CD much more, and how in the course of the next 30-40 years that could potentially die out:
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