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> How much Röhr, who has worked as a conductor on pop stars’ tours and on TV, has earned from his agreement with Spotify is not known. However, his private company reportedly made 32.7mn kronor (£2.4m) in 2022, when it had a record year.

Doesn't look much

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> Doesn't look much

It’s a life changing amount of money for something like 90% of humanity.

Try 99.99%

Well Britney Spears and Abba are not 90% of humanity and he is reportedly listened-to more than them.

This makes me wonder how big musicians make most of their money actually. Live concerts? Selling merchandise? Genuine question. For all I know it's not topping the Spotify.

Lmao yep.

$2.4mil puts you in the top 2% of Americans.

Those 32 mSEK is the turnover, not profits. The profits are a mere 27 mSEK.[1] And he runs two more companies[2][3] that made another 21 mSEK.

[1]: https://www.allabolag.se/5569664575/j-pipe-productions-ab

[2]: https://www.allabolag.se/5566338496/j-pipe-music-ab

[3]: https://www.allabolag.se/5593406852/j-pipe-holding-ab

Sounds pretty good, especially when you consider that they only have one employee.

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