← Join the rosterThe Math · NOV 10, 2026
Artist Earnings
What you’d earn.
You keep 90% of what fans pay after payment processing. No labels, no middlemen. Drag the dial — these are real platform numbers.
Your take-home
$496/ month
That’s $5,952 a year from 100 fans at the Family & Friends tier.
Each fan: $5.99 from your fan → $5.52 after card processing → $4.96 to you
100
Fans pay$599.00 / mo
Card processing− $47.00 / mo
IMS (10% of what's left)− $56.00 / mo
To you (90% after payment processing)$496.00 / mo
Annual take-home$5,952
Streams to match this on a major DSP≈ 124,000 / mo
You get 90% of what fans pay after payment processing; IMS keeps the other 10%. Card processing is Stripe’s standard 2.9% + 30¢ per payment. Streaming comparison assumes ≈$0.004/stream (a blended major-DSP estimate) — to clear $496/mo there, you’d need 124,000 plays. Here it takes 100 fans.