Can we please stop with this lie that ‘Artists make X amount per stream on Spotify’? Spotify uses a Pro Rata system. Basically all the money goes in one big pot and then artists are ranked by popularity and that determines how much they get paid. So a percentage of your $100 a year goes to Drake and Taylor Swift even if you didn't listen to them. Lemme break it down with an example:

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幾秒內	Louis La Roche iamlouislaroche	Pro Rata is a market centric/market centred system used by most (but not all) music streaming platforms. Example: Listener 1: Pays $10 a month and listens to Ed Sheeran 18 times in the month. Listener 2: Pays $10 a month and listens to Tame Impala 2 times in the month. All royalty money ($20) goes into a royalty pool, which is then divided by popularity (number of streams). In this case, Ed Sheeran gets 90%, whilst Tame Impala gets 10%. $18 for Ed Sheeran and $2 for Tame Impala.
4 小時內	flat.moon.society flat.moon.music	Artists don't get paid directly by Spotify - their distributors do and it would be in one giant sum for all of the distributor's artists. So if you didn't listen to Drake, Drake isn't getting your money. UMG, in his case, is getting your money and you likely listened to other artists distributed by UMG so your money is still going where it should. What the major labels do with it from there is ¯\_(ツ)_/¯