All About That Bass Co-Writer: I Earned $5,600 On 178 Million Spotify Streams

Kevin Kadine, the co-writer of Meghan Trainor‘s smash hit “All About That Bass,” says he made only $5,679 on 178 million Spotify streams.

Kadine said the average streaming-service payout for a songwriter is roughly $90 per million streams. The rate, according to American copyright law, is chosen by the US Government and is non-negotiable.

Speaking to a roundtable of five members of the House of Representatives, Kadine says he split the