Apple Music may have taken the top slot in the digital streaming music market in the United States.
Per an anonymous source, Apple Music has now surpassed Spotify’s subscriber count in the United States.
The source, which is thought to be a major U.S.-based distributor, is said to have leaked the report with Digital Music News, which follows the subscriber tallies of several streaming music services, including Apple Music, Spotify, Tidal, and Sirius XM.
When Apple Music hits, it’ll pay artists about the industry standard.
A leaked document shared by Digital Music News shows that with Apple charging between US$9.99 and US$14.99 per month for its upcoming on-demand Apple Music service, with 58 percent of its subscription revenues going to record labels. For every US$9.99 Apple collects from subscribers in the United States, it will pay out US$5.80 to labels. Additionally, Apple pays approximately 12 percent to publishers and/or songwriters, leaving the company with somewhere around 30 percent of the revenue from the Apple Music service.