Between October and March, Keating’s songs were played 72,800 times on Spotify.
For all those listens — those hours upon hours of music — she earned $281.87. Every time someone listened to one of her songs, she made, on average, three tenths of a cent*.
Those numbers are roughly equal* to what was thrown around last year, when Spotify prepared to launch in the US. David Harrell, writing on his blog Digital Audio Insider last July, claimed to make, on average, more than two tenths of a cent per listen.