The flow of money from subscription on-demand streaming services is a complicated process that involves payments from
subscribers to services, services to rightsholders and administrators, and rightsholders and administrators to creators and their
collaborators. This graphic illustrates that flow through many of those parts—recording artists, songwriters, mechanical and
performing rights organizations, publishers, record companies, and many others—by relying on general industry benchmarks. No
graphical representation of the modern music business can fully account for every variation in the marketplace including the
recoupment of advances, differences in contracts and fees, and changes over time to various statutory rates.
