Bette Midler Rips Pandora Over Payments To Artists

Bette Midler is the latest artist to accuse streaming services Spotify and Pandora of ripping off artists, according to noise11.com.

In a tweet the Divine Miss M confirmed that she was paid $114.11 for over 4 million plays on Pandora.

.@Spotify and @Pandora have made it impossible for songwriters to earn a living: three months streaming on Pandora, 4,175,149 plays=$114.11.
— Bette Midler (@BetteMidler) April 4, 2014

On those figures Bette Midler fans would have to play her songs 365 times on Pandora for her to earn one cent.

Pandora is a publicly listed company in the USA. Bette Midler fans would have to play her music 13,442,950 times to earn her enough money to buy ONE Pandora share. The stock is currently trading at $368.30.