  We study the problem of sharing the revenues raised from subscriptions to
music streaming platforms among content providers. We provide direct, axiomatic
and game-theoretical foundations for two focal (and somewhat polar) methods
widely used in practice: pro-rata and user-centric. The former rewards artists
proportionally to their number of total streams. With the latter, each user's
subscription fee is proportionally divided among the artists streamed by that
user. We also provide foundations for a family of methods compromising among
the previous two, which addresses the rising concern in the music industry to
explore new streaming models that better align the interests of artists, fans
and streaming services.
