Experts often point out that streaming is the future of the industry. But although it indeed sounds like a dream for consumers, who would pay a single monthly fee and stream all music they want, musicians are of another opinion.

It should be added that it is quite difficult to find out just how lucrative Spotify or Apple’s  iTunes Match streaming services are. That is because neither artists nor the providers of the services want to expose any details.

However, the American band Parks and Gardens has revealed just how much it makes.

It turns out each song play nets the group just under 1/3 of a cent when streamed from Apple’s cloud music service and slightly more than that from Spotify.

So Parks and Gardens would need to see over 3 plays for any song to get them a cent of revenue from a song on iTunes Match.

Besides, the band already pays distribution service TuneCore $50 a year just to place their music on the services. So they need over 15,127 plays of their songs to break even on distributing them alone.

It can be concluded that streaming services help cash in only to artists that have millions of fans, reports The Next Web.

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