> <i>Lidell and Matthiessen said that in order to generate 1m kroner [$95.5k], a track would need to be streamed 20m times and would have to be entirely owned by the artist, songwriter and label, which is incredibly rare.</i><p>Interpolating linearly, an artist looking to make $10k needs to write, play, own their music <i>and</i> have it play 2m times. Possible copyright infringement aside, I admire the guts required to tell a judge "we pay artists so little that fraud is the only possible explanation".