Let Listeners Choose Where Their Subscription Dollar Goes

On most big streaming platforms, your monthly fee goes into one shared pool that is split by each artist's share of all streams, not by what you actually play.

A “user-centric” model would instead divide each subscriber's fee among the artists that person listens to. Studies using real platform data suggest this can move money between artists, though platforms and economists have raised questions about cost and complexity, and not every smaller artist would gain.

We're not asking platforms to scrap their system. We're asking them to:
1. Offer subscribers an opt-in setting so their fee follows their own listening
2. Run a transparent pilot and share the results
3. Explain in plain language how each fee is divided today

Most of all, this petition is intended to show streaming platforms that listeners care about supporting the artists they listen to.