Only Harris will know how much of Summer’s streaming payout comes through to him, and even he won’t know for a while, since royalty payments don’t tend to zip through the music industry system at a rollercoaster pace.
Global download sales of Summer are unknown. It’s a million-dollar hit on Spotify, at least, since these figures don’t include payments for streams of the track on YouTube (42.7m plays of the audio-only version and another 189.1m of the actual video) or other streaming services. Or, if you take the mid-point between the two per-stream amounts: around $1.16m (around £706k).
That means a payout of between $964k and $1.35m so far. Those figures cover payments to labels, publishers and distributors, who then pass them on to artists and songwriters.Īccording to the stats shown on his Spotify profile, Harris’ Summer has been played 160,753,376 times, at the time of writing. Stream songs including 'Blame', 'Feel So Close' and more. Spotify published its royalty payouts formula in 2013, including the claim that its average “per stream” payout is between $0.006 and $0.0084. Listen to Instrumental Covers of Calvin Harris by White Knight Instrumental on Apple Music. But we can at least calculate roughly how much those rightsholders were paid for streams of the song. The short answer: nobody knows, because the exact amount will depend on the terms of his label and publishing contracts. The opalescent 'Pray to God' sounds more like a Haim song spiced up by Calvin Harris than vice versa. So yes, it's a portfolio of win for Calvin, an annual report where the graph is almost all peaks and the troughs are so far down they're practically invisible.Streaming music service Spotify says the aptly-named Summer by Calvin Harris was its “song of the summer” this year, after its users streamed the track more than 160m times since its release in June.Īnnounced as part of a wider release about summer hits on the service – Harris beat Ariana Grande and Iggy Azalea’s Problem to top spot on Spotify’s chart – the feat becomes more interesting when you dig in to how much money Summer’s streams made for Harris. While Ellie Goulding, Gwen Stefani, and John Newman enliven their respective Vegas club staples, and 'Summer' contains one of the years most grandiose synth crescendos, its the curveballs that steal the show here. Decorate your laptops, water bottles, notebooks and windows. No whooshing, no builds, no drops, just a re-energised rapper delighted with the great big dirty fartcake he's been given to work with. This is our version of Summer by Calvin Harris, available soon on iTunes. Unique Summer Calvin Harris stickers featuring millions of original designs created and sold by independent artists. Dizzee Rascal, who already had his Harris makeover a while back, is the lucky recipient of a total bassquake. Only on Here 2 China is there a worthy variation on the formula, the sense of a producer stretching out to meet the needs of his vocalist. The other two are just commas, a chance to breathe. Calvin Harris -Summer file 45mb 44khz 16 Download Lagu Flac Calvin Harris - Blame. THIS KELLY ROWLAND COLUMBIA THE GIRLS CALVIN HARRIS COLUMBIA HEAVYWEIGHT. School is the real oddity, a half-hearted and airless stab at G-funk, and a throwback to Calvin's pre-Olympian past, but at least it's an attempt to go somewhere else. CD Jazz Blog (flac-Lossless & mp3320) This is the name of an album of. SORA-IRO DEIZU (CD + DVD) SYOKO NAKAGAWA SONY 5 6 7 8 9 1O FRANCE SINGLES 3. Then there are the makeweights - Green Valley, Mansion, School - the leftover riffs and ideas that never quite got finished off and have clearly been thrown in as some kind of light relief amid all of the breathless urgency. So line up, Ellie Goulding, c'mere Tinie Tempah, you want a certified Harris club banger to go? With relish? You've come to the right place. It's a noble undertaking, and one Calvin Harris clearly takes very seriously, no matter who he is working with. Of the nine songs that aren't singles already, four are cut from the same cloth as the hits: each one desperately vying to be the tune you most want to be dancing to when the realisation hits that you're out, the night is young, and everything is brilliant. And they're all in the key of ruthless triumph, where even the flats are sharp. Six singles released already, counting Rihanna's We Found Love: six worldwide hits, any one of which you can hear by just by turning on a radio. If ever there was an album (greatest hits excepted) that could claim to be a winner before a single copy was sold, it's this one.