Streams up 78% but payments down 6%?

[clarelynnrose]

Hi - wondering if someone can help me understand what's happened here? I had a 78% increase in monthly streams but a _decrease_ of 6% in payments.

Mar streams of 52,500 generated $125 (Pandora Radio + Pandora Plus + Pandora Premium) 

Apr streams of 93,500 generated $118 (Pandora Radio + Pandora Plus + Pandora Premium)

Is there a time lag of a couple of months in terms of how payments are calculated? Thanks in advance for your help in understanding this.

Many thanks,

Clarelynn

[NADRIP]

Oh, actually I have a related question!  I understand that interactive streams (Pandora Plus + Pandora Premium) are paid to my distributor, and, in fact, I do get some Pandora payments to my distributor, but I also understand that non-interactive streams (Pandora Radio aka Pandora free / ad supported) are paid to SoundExchange.  The problem is that I have never, ever gotten any payments from Pandora to SoundExchange.   Why is that?

[JohnVPandora · Accepted solution]

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