Deezer revolutionises the artist compensation model
Deezer's new Artist-Centric Payment System (ACPS) is a model designed to benefit all artists, no matter their label or distribution channel.
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Artists are paid according to how their music is listened to by fans. Artists directly benefit from boosts when their songs are actively searched for by fans or are discovered on Deezer playlists (not suggested by an algorithm). And any artist with more than 1000 listens per month, by at least 500 unique listeners, receives a boost (one stream = two). Artists can receive these boosts in combination, making them worth four times the value of non-boosted streams.
More support for real artists
Deezer also aims to highlight the work of artists by eliminating irrelevant content from its catalogue (e.g., rain, white noise, etc.) and replacing these audios with its own non-royalty-generating content. By removing this content, Deezer directs money towards real artists.
Empowering artists in the streaming era
A money pool is created from the subscription of all users. This pool is then divided and distributed to the artists (via their distributors) based on how many times their music is streamed by users. Each user is counted as a maximum of 1000 streams per month in this calculation (on average, a user streams 600 times).
Reducing fraud on Deezer
Capping user monetisation ensures a fairer division of revenue among artists, no matter how much a user streams a single track or artist. The cap of 1000 streams also discourages streaming fraud (when an account amasses thousands of streams for a singular song or artist) because each user will only contribute 1000 streams to the pool.
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Deezer's launch of the Artist-Centric Payment System (ACPS) marks a significant step forward in the music streaming industry. To read more about Deezer's Artist-Centric Payment System, please follow the links below:
