I love to stream music. I love artists that make music. I want them to be able to live off what they make.

Here are some of my favourite music-streaming platforms:

• SoundCloud: use an artist-centric payment model. In 2023 they turned profitable, which is something Spotify have not achieved. Edit, 2024-01-08: it was recently announced by Sky News that SoundCloud appear to try to sell their platform. Hopefully, this will not lead to what Bandcamp are becoming.
• Resonate: sadly, Resonate came across a crisis early in 2023, and are winding down since October 2024. Resonate is/was the first community-owned music-streaming service. Their payment model is artist-centered and user-centric.
• Bandcamp: even though Bandcamp have been sold a couple of times (in 2022 and 2023), they allow users to stream music (both via the web and via their app) and download the music, too. They take roughly 10-15% of what users pay, and the rest goes to the artist.
• Rokk: launched in September 2024, they want to pay artists '2-3 times more' than other streaming services and allow the end user to pay 10% of their monthly pay by signing up for Rokk via a special artist link^[1]. Support their Indiegogo crowdfunding campaign!

Rokk pricing strategy