Liam Gallagher, who performs vocals on the track, famously used to despise the effort, which has been streamed 1.49 billion times on Spotify. However, after Gallagher and Mathews divorced in 2001, he changed his tune: “The meaning of that song was taken away from me by the media who jumped on it, and how do you tell your Mrs it’s not about her once she’s read it is? It’s a song about an imaginary friend who’s gonna come and save you from yourself.” Noel Gallagher told NME in 1996 that ‘Wonderwall’ was written for Meg Mathews, his then-girlfriend and later wife. However, the true origins of the track have often come into question. If a band has four members and all four have families where they were the sole source of income, the group would need to generate 24,250,000 Spotify streams to gross enough so each member’s family would be at or above the poverty line.The song, originally titled ‘Wishing Stone’, was later renamed ‘Wonderwall’ after George Harrison’s debut solo album of the same name. “These numbers get much bigger when the musician is part of a larger group. Using the same average royalty rate, a musician would need 6,062,500 Spotify streams to earn that amount of gross income. “But what about people with families? The ASPE puts the poverty line for a family of four (2 adults, 2 children) at $24,250.
“At an average payout of $0.006 per song stream, a musician living in the United States needs 3,000,000 plays annually to have a gross income of $12,000.”Īfter pointing out that artists with label deals would actually need more streams to live above the poverty line, on account of labels taking their cut before the artist gets paid, Shotwell points out that artists in bands and/ or with families will need an even greater amount of streams, since they’re splitting any income generated from streaming multiple ways: If we ignore how that figure would be hard for anyone to live on in a major city (and most mid-size cities), then we can round up to $12,000 and use streaming revenue calculators to figure out how many Spotify streams someone would need to sustain themselves.
“According to the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE), the poverty line for single-person households is $11,770.
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