If all the physicals for Demon Hunters had got counted, I reckon it would have still topped the compilation chart even without streaming

On 13/09/2025 at 00:27, Graham A said:

Though you can calculate streams at £0.005p per stream, that would be on a single track. Albums have different numbers of tracks. So do you calculate the stream figure for every track on an album? A ten track album streamed by 100 people, would therefore have fewer streams than a 20 track one, streamed by the same number of people. Alan Jones does not break down also the streams of premier and add funded streams. Add funded streams are more common than premier. That figure might have be £0.001p or even £0.0001p. On Jones' figures, the first calculation is 26p per track! Hardly adding much to Sabrina's total sales!

I'm not entirely sure what you're trying to say to be honest lol. Why would I need to calculate the streams for each track on the album when we have the total streaming sales for both? Though on second look I did actually miscalculate, I thought it was 1,500 streams for 1 streaming equivalent album sale, but turns out it's actually 1,000 streams. It does bear saying that I can't account for the fact that the top two tracks are downweighted to the average of the rest of the album, so the total streams for the album are greater than just the simple "streaming equivalent sales * 1,000" (or 1,500 as I initially used).

For the £0.005 per stream, that's the figure I came to after some googling around. It's not a perfect calculation, but is good enough for rough estimates like this. I can very much assure you that it is not "£0.0001p" (which would be £0.000001) per stream. If that were the case, the most streamed tracks of all time in the UK, with hundreds of millions of UK streams, would've made a whopping couple hundred quid across their entire lives.

It's also absolutely worth mentioning that the "roughly £0.005 per stream" is the figure that actually gets sent to artists (or labels), which is very much not the case for the sale price of paid-for sales. The platform or store takes their own cut of the sale price, and there's also manufacturing and distribution costs to take into account for physicals. For a perfect like-for-like comparison we'd need to slash the revenue generated from the paid-for sales compared to the sale prices, though exactly how much we'd need to slash it by I have no idea.

One thing to bear in mind with any statement that assigns monetary value to streams is that they are counted twice -admittedly at different ratios but nevertheless counted twice for singles and then again at a different ratio for albums. So perhaps the monetary contribution from streams should not count with regards to albums if you already count it for singles - or vice versa....