Snoop Dog Earned Shocking Amount Of Money After Hitting A Billion Streams On Spotify

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The amount of money Snoop Dogg has made from having his music streamed one billion times on Spotify has been made public.

It's great to know that some people are still making a lot of money, even if it's just from tricking others into believing they've given up smoking pot for a sneaky advertisement or having their music streamed an incredible billion times on Spotify, while the rest of us struggle to make ends meet.

You might be surprised to see how much Snoop has made from his Spotify streams, though.

In an interview with the YouTube channel Business Untitled, Snoop talked about the specifics of streaming music on services like Spotify.

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The 52-year-old claims that there is a lack of "transparency" in the "music industry and the film industry."

He says: "'Give me a song, give me a song, give me a song, I'm taking 60 percent 'cuz I'm putting it out for you, you getting 40 percent'. That may sound like a lot but you just made $100,000 so... In the streaming world, I can show you right now."

Next, Snoop provides an example, saying that his publisher has just sent him "some s**t" about Spotify, revealing that he has "got a billion streams."

You would assume that would make the artist extremely wealthy, and although it is still a sizable sum, Snoop's alleged salary check isn't quite as large as you might anticipate.

Snoop continues: "I said, 'Break that down, how much money is that?'

"That s**t wasn't even $45,000. [...] You see what I'm saying?"

These days, people are flooding social media to argue about the advantages and disadvantages of musicians' work being streamed on services like Spotify.

A user of One X, formerly known as Twitter, stated: "Streaming is so dead…. Physical sales might have to come back lol we got rid of CDs too quick."

"Can someone explain why it’s so low? This seems insanely low for how many streams that is," another added.

A third explained: "The reason is because snoop isn’t an independent artist. All those songs are owned by a label and he gets a cut and his cut was 45k. Most artist make the bulk of their money from performing and features."

And a final just simply joked: "All those money goes straight to his weed smoking industry."

Despite this, Snoop says he still enjoys creating music and "performing," though only when he has to "compete" with other well-known artists.

And ultimately, the rapper resolves: "No matter how much money you make, if you're not making money to make a difference, it don't make none at all."

A spokesperson from Spotify’s website Loud & Clear said: "Spotify doesn’t pay artists or songwriters directly.”

"Spotify pays rights holders (record labels and publishers). Record labels and publishers then pay artists and songwriters based on deals they’ve signed. Spotify has no way of knowing how much a publisher paid a songwriter for their streams.”

"Spotify primarily makes money for music from two sources — Spotify Premium subscribers and advertisers on Spotify’s Free tier. Nearly 70 percent of this money is paid out to music rights holders to what we call the 'royalty pool'.”

"Spotify allocates that royalty pool based on each rights holder’s (record labels and publishers) streamshare on Spotify. This money is not divvied up based on a fixed amount per stream because Premium subscribers do not pay per stream; they pay a subscription fee for access.”