Los Campesinos! reveal how much they were paid by each streaming platform in 2025

Posted On December 4, 2025December 4, 2025

Indie band Los Campesinos! have revealed how much they’ve been paid by streaming platforms to coincide with Spotify Wrapped.

On December 3rd, Spotify unveiled its annual Spotify Wrapped package for users across the globe, detailing their favourite artists, songs, listening habits, as well as an estimate of their age based on their favourite music.

As a result, social media has been awash with screenshots of users sharing their own Spotify Wrapped, which has caused Los Campesinos! to reveal the brutal truth behind how much they were paid by different streaming platforms.

They released statistics purely for their album, All Hell, which arrived in July 2024, rather than their full discography, with the band explaining, “It’s the one album to which we own the full rights worldwide, with all income being accounted and paid direct to us.”

From its release in July 2024 to June 2025, All Hell was streamed more than nine million times, which earned Los Campesinos! £31,940.29.

They said of the numbers: “The above figures equate to an average of 0.34p paid to us by streaming platforms for each song listen. This means we make £1.00 for every 294 streams of a song (or to look at it another way, a quid for every 20 full listens to the album).”

However, the figures combined 21 different sources of income, which differed significantly in how much they paid the band. The Welsh group explained, “During this period of time we received digital streaming income from 21 different sources. These vary from traditional streaming platforms to places like Meta (£23.95), Snapchat (£1.18) and TikTok (£0.26).”

While Spotify accounted for almost 75 per cent of their streams, it paid the least per stream compared with the other streaming services at £0.29 per stream. In comparison, Tidal, which only made up just over two per cent of streams, paid £0.75 per stream, and Amazon, which was less than two per cent of streams, paid £0.68 per stream.

The band concluded, “If everyone who streamed All Hell on Spotify had done so using Tidal instead, we would have received an extra £31,847.38, which would double the amount we made from streaming of the album in this time period. Or if everyone used Apple Music it would have been £12,331 more.”

They also explained how they would only receive a small portion of the figure if they were under a typical record deal, sharing, “If we had released All Hell on a label in the same way that we did with our previous six albums, even if we did not have an advance to recoup, at a high-end royalty rate of 20% only £6,388 of the £31,940.29 streaming income would have been ours.”

The full breakdown and statistics can be seen here.

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