The Artist
Get paid for the people who actually listen. Automatic splits for everyone who made the record.
ExploreThe music industry forgot who makes the music.
Spotify pays for streams. RAAYDR pays for attention.
Join the free waitlistStreaming is broken. Let’s stop pretending it isn’t.
You pay £12.99 a month. Do you know where it goes? Into a pool. Divided by total streams. The artists with the most plays take the biggest share. Not the artists you actually listened to. The machine rewards the machine. 1,000 streams on Spotify pays for a coffee. Your favourite independent artist sees fractions of a penny. The producer who made the beat? Often nothing. The songwriter? Don't even ask. That's not a music industry. That's extraction. We're done pretending it has to be this way.
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People are the algorithm.
No black box deciding who gets heard. Real people, real taste, real money following both. The listeners who find it first. The tastemakers who back it early. The community that rates it. They are the engine.
See the maths03 / Find your place
Everyone wins.
04 / The real numbers
You don’t need a million streams. You need people who actually care.
This is what attention pays.
Play count moves Spotify. It doesn’t move RAAYDR.
Spotifypays for streams
£360/month
£4,320 a year
RAAYDRpays for attention
£1,400/month
£16,800 a year
This is a living
≈ 117,000 casual monthly listeners needed on Spotify to match this
£5.99 − £0.99 tastemaker fund − 30% to RAAYDR = £3.50, the fan’s artist money, every month. Attention decides where the £3.50 goes. 40% of a fan’s attention gets you 40% of their artist money. Play count doesn’t decide it. Devotion does.
Founding tier, paid monthly, before payment processing. Spotify side assumes roughly £0.003 per stream, a typical blended rate for independent artists. £3.50 is the most one founding fan can generate in a month, and only if they listen to nothing but you. The match figure assumes an average of 4 streams per casual monthly listener.
On RAAYDR, your earnings don’t depend on how many times a button gets pressed. They depend on real people choosing you.
Fair is not radical. It just looks that way because the bar is underground.
The old system was built to concentrate value at the top. RAAYDR sends it to the people who make the music, find the music, and fund the music.
Built for the culture. Owned by the community.
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Be one of the first 1,000.
Founding members pay £5.99 a month. Locked in forever. When RAAYDR opens to everyone, it goes to £7.99. You were early. On RAAYDR, that counts.
No payment required to join the waitlist. We'll let you know when founding spots open.