Interesting numbers from Qobuz, a french music streaming service. But the press releases have slightly different emphasis on being european in the different languages.
The first paragraph of this press release in german reads (translated):
Qobuz proves that a European alternative that relies on sound quality and human curation can also find its audience in a mass market dominated by tech giants and achieve a positive balance.
In the french and english version it reads:
The success story of an independent French company that has become a global player alongside the music streaming giants.
It seems they only emphasize being european in the german press release, it’s missing from the english and french version.
Following this logic, artists get more value from users if the users stream music less, since there will be a lower total amount of streams, making each stream be a larger share of the monthly fee they pay to the platform.
Which is clearly not the case - the artists still get to share the €13 the users pay per month, regardless of how many streams they actually happen to play in any given month.
The truth is that “pay per stream” as a metric to compare music streaming services has always been pretty much meaningless
That is a valid point.