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From KQED Public Radio in San Francisco, I'm Ariana Prail.

In March, recording artists protested outside Spotify offices around the world as part of an ongoing movement to demand better pay.

The streaming site's payout rates have been decreasing over time, with artists today making an estimated 0.0038 cents per stream.

The union of musicians and allied workers and advocacy group

that came together during the coronavirus pandemic

wants the Swedish streaming company to pay at least a penny per stream

and be more transparent with its dealings.

We'll learn more about how streaming and artist compensation really breaks down, the union's demands,

and how independent artists are making money these days.

That's next after this news. Welcome to Forum. I'm Ariana Prail. In 2018, Daniel Eck, the CEO of Music Streaming Company, Spotify, shared a mission statement to investors that the company wanted, quote, to unlock the potential of human creativity by giving a million creative artists the opportunity to live off their art.

Which sounds great, but NPR calculated roughly for an artist to earn the equivalent of $15 an hour at a full-time job.

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