The application calculates where labels are placed on an axis according to the following steps: 1  Minimum and maximum values are identified based on the values in the result set. 2  An equidistant number of axis intervals, usually between four and six, are calculated based on these minimum and maximum values.
Spotify kept tabs on usersâ streaming habits and just released highlights for the 2015 year in music. Here are the most streamed songs, artists and albums of the year: (Photo: Twitter) Drake was streamed 1.8 billion times this year by 46 million listeners, beating Ed Sheeran, last yearâs most streamed artist.
So it's likely to be a long time before Spotify's U.S.-based service comes close to matching its numbers in Sweden, where more than 10 percent of the population uses the streaming service. Of course, the bigger the artists, the more people will stream their songs. How much of that money actually goes to label-affiliated artists varies widely. Like Sweden's Hybris, the labels in the Beggars Group give 50 percent of the royalty payments to the artist.