Los Campesinos! reveal how much they earned from each streaming service in 2025 – and how much more TIDAL pays than Spotify

Los Campesinos! have revealed how much money they earned from each of the major streaming services in 2025.

The Cardiff indie band broke down their earnings for their latest album cycle in a post on social media yesterday (Wednesday December 3), shortly after Spotify launched the 2025 edition of Wrapped.

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“With #SpotifyWrapped and other streaming platforms’ End of Year Roundups having dropped, we thought now would be a good time to share some cold, hard stats about how much money our band makes from streaming royalties,” they captioned the series of infographics.

The figures show the group’s takings for their seventh LP, 2024’s ‘All Hell’ – which is the only one of their records that they’ve owned the world rights for, as Consequence notes.

The table of figures shows the number of streams and subsequent income for ‘All Hell’ in its first year of release. It includes Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube, TIDAL and Amazon, as well as a category for “others”.

In total, Los Campesinos! made £31,940.29 from 9,300,864 streamings across this period.

“The above figures equate to an average of 0.34p paid to us by streaming platforms for each song listen,” they wrote in a more detailed breakdown on their website. “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).”

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They added: “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).”

Spotify streams over the year-long came in at 6,970,117, resulting in a payment of £20,428.50 (0.29p per stream). Los Campesinos! registered 1,373,111 plays on Apple Music, with an income of £6,496.50 (0.47p per stream). YouTube generated 352,615 listens and a payment of £1,494.42 (0.42p per stream).

TIDAL paid out £1,440.14 from 192,958 streams, and gave the band 0.75p per stream – well over double what Spotify pays out per listen. However, TIDAL equated to just 2.07 per cent of Los Campesinos!’s total streams – compared to almost 75 per cent from Spotify.

Amazon Music generated the second-biggest income-per-stream figure (0.68), with Apple Music coming in third.

Highlighting that “Spotify pays significantly less per stream than anywhere else”, Los Campesinos! said they would have earned an extra £31,847.38 if everyone who listened on Spotify had streamed through TIDAL instead.

“Or if everyone used Apple Music, it would have been £12,331 more,” they noted.

Los Campesinos explained: “We are fortunate as a band that we are self-managed and run our own record label, so the £31,940.29 that was generated through streaming flows straight to Los Campesinos! Ltd.

“However, we are in a minority, and most bands will only see money if there is any left over after record labels and management have taken their cuts.”

The post said they wanted to be “transparent and open about our band’s finances”, as “openness can help create change towards a music economy that’s better and fairer for bands and fans alike in the future”.

Los Campesinos! signed off by directing their followers to Bandcamp, “where whatever you pay, the money comes direct to us”. Check out the post above and see the more detailed breakdown here.

This week, a new study found that independent record labels pay nearly 80 per cent of all profits to artists.

Earlier this year, Los Campesinos! similarly broke down the “financial restrictions” of touring, and revealed a significant “loss” from a one-off show in Dublin. They would later turn down a $60,000 advert deal with Airbnb, citing the company’s alleged links with “stolen Palestinian land”.

In September, Spotify founder Daniel Ek confirmed that he would be stepping down from the role of CEO, and transitioning to an executive chairman role on January 1, 2026. He has received backlash for issues related to artist payment and his investment in weapons.

Spotify have also recently cracked down on AI, removing 75million tracks and targeting impersonators. The streaming giant previously claimed it had paid $10billion (£7.58billion) in royalties in 2024, the largest payout to the music industry in a single year.

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