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How Much Do Superstars Make from Streaming? Ariana Grande Struggling with 13 of the Top Songs

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Look, we’re not taking up a collection for Ariana Grande. She’s loaded.

But how much do superstars actually make from streaming? The answer is: not a lot.

According to the Song Revenue chart from hitsdailydouble.com, Ariana had about 13 of the top 50 streaming songs last week. She had the number 1 song for streaming with “We Can’t Be Friends.”

Thirteen songs — you’d think that would add up to a fortune. But the total is around $850,000 — not even a million bucks. Her top song brought in just $135,000.

Once you take away taxes and the streamers’ cut, and everyone else’s, Ariana has just enough money to buy a clip on pony tail. And imagine how the other superstars did who are on that chart, most with just one track.

Streaming ain’t for the squeamish, that’s for sure.

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Roger Friedman
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Roger Friedman is the founder and editor-in-chief of Showbiz411. He wrote the FOX411 column on FoxNews.com from 1999 to 2009 and previously edited Fame magazine and wrote the "Intelligencer" column at New York magazine. His bylines have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, the New York Daily News, the New York Post, Vogue, Details, and the Miami Herald. He is a voting member of the Critics Choice Awards (Film and Television branches), and his movie reviews are tracked by Rotten Tomatoes. is articles have appeared in dozens of publications over the years including New York Magazine, where he wrote the Intelligencer column in the mid 90s and covered the OJ Simpson trial, and Fox News (when it wasn't so crazy) where he covered Michael Jackson. With D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus, he co-produced the 2002 documentary "Only the Strong Survive," which screened at Directors' Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival.

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