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Sabaton

Швеция

Heavy Metal
Power Metal

http://www.sabaton.net
Myspace: http://www.myspace.com/sabaton
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sabaton

5 дек 2025 :
16 ноя 2025 :	Watch: SABATON Debuts Massive New Stage Show At First Concert Of 'The Legendary Tour'
10 ноя 2025 :	SABATON Releases Music Video For 'A Tiger Among Dragons' From 'Legends' Album
28 окт 2025 :	SABATON Wouldn't Write About Current Military Conflicts Because It Would Be 'So Politically Charged'
20 окт 2025 :	SABATON's THOBBE ENGLUND On His Return To Band: 'Everything Is In Harmony Now'
18 окт 2025 :
8 окт 2025 :	JOAKIM BRODÉN On SABATON's Classic Heavy Metal Sound: 'We're The Last Of A Breed'
6 окт 2025 :	SABATON's PÄR SUNDSTRÖM On Cracking American Market: 'There Was A Point Where It Seemed Impossible'
24 сен 2025 :
12 сен 2025 :
2 сен 2025 :	SABATON Is Planning Something 'Very Special' For Upcoming Tour: 'We Have Two Stages And Something That Connects Them'
20 авг 2025 :	SABATON's JOAKIM BRODÉN Explains Lyrical Inspiration For 'Legends' Album
25 июл 2025 :
6 июн 2025 :	SABATON Releases New Single And Cinematic Video 'Hordes Of Khan'
3 июн 2025 :	SABATON Announces 'Hordes Of Khan' Single, Shares 33-Minute Documentary About Making Of Official Music Video
18 май 2025 :	SABATON Guitarist THOBBE ENGLUND On His Return To The Band: 'It Was A No-Brainer For Me'
13 май 2025 :	SABATON's Eleventh Studio Album Was Completed Before Label Switch, Says JOAKIM BRODÉN
1 май 2025 :	SABATON's JOAKIM BRODÉN Explains Record Label Change: This Was More Of An 'Intellectual Decision'
25 апр 2025 :	SABATON Releases Cinematic Video For New Single 'Templars'
14 апр 2025 :	SABATON Announces New Single 'Templars'
12 янв 2025 :	SABATON - "Bismarck" Single Hits 100 Million Streams On Spotify
19 ноя 2024 :	SABATON Teams With 'Conqueror's Blade' Video Game In Exciting Collaboration
28 окт 2024 :	JOAKIM BRODÉN: SABATON Has New Music 'In The Works'
23 окт 2024 :	SABATON's JOAKIM BRODÉN On Surviving In Music Business In 2024: 'We Can Only Accept The Facts And Deal With It'
4 сен 2024 :	SABATON's PÄR SUNDSTRÖM Announces 'Lord Of Metal': Where Rock And Metal Meet Video Games
29 июл 2024 :	25 Years Of SABATON - "Since Its Release, We Haven't Had A Single Person Tell Us Heroes Is A Bad Album"

10 апр 2023

PÄR SUNDSTRÖM Explains How SABATON Has Managed To Make Good Money From Its Music In Digital Era

SABATON bassist and co-founder Pär Sundström, who also serves as the group's manager, spoke to Forbes about how he and his bandmates have managed to not only survive but thrive as fans choose to stream songs online rather than purchase them.

According to Sundström, ownership of the SABATON brand has always been key, with the group owning its masters and publishing, a viable revenue stream for a band that has eclipsed two billion streams regardless of the state of physical album sales.

"I know bands who signed contracts in, let's say, the pre-digital era," he said. "And they signed contracts where they have a royalty rate based on physical sales. In short term, the contract would cover the universe and beyond and give them the same royalty no matter what kind of format for a lifetime. When that translates into the digital era, it doesn't matter if you have millions of listeners on a song because you get almost nothing out of it.

"It's not a secret that the digital platforms pay very little per stream," he explained. "But it makes a huge difference if you are on the higher scale or lower scale of keeping that percentage for yourself as opposed to all of the other labels and publishers who take their cut. So, when we own it, we can decide where we want to be on the scale. And when it bumps up to the billions, yeah, that bumps up pretty nicely."

According to USA Today, Spotify doesn't pay the artists directly but instead pays the rights holders, who pay the artists. Roughly two-thirds of the Spotify revenue from music goes to rights holders. Rights holders are the licensor the artist pays to represent them and upload their music to Spotify — often record labels or distributors. This money is divided into recording royalties (paid to the artist via licensor) and publishing royalties, which goes to the songwriters or owners of the song. Artists are paid different amounts depending on the contracts they have with their rights holders.

According to Business Insider, Spotify pays artists and rights holders on average between $0.003 and $0.005 per stream. On average, one billion streams on Spotify can generate around $7.8 million in revenue for the artist. As stated above, however, it's important to note that this revenue is typically split between the artist, their record label, and other stakeholders involved in the production and distribution of the music.

Back in 2016, Sundström spoke to From Hero To Zero about how the digital music revolution has affected SABATON. He said: "You know, I think we came in the right time for this, 'cause we came in a time when we were interested in that too. I was a lot into computers before starting the band, so I was following the development of the Internet and stuff like that. At the age of 13, I was building servers and connecting them to Internet and writing my own software for that. And that was that time. And a couple of years later, the Internet started to provide, like, 'Oh, you can actually download some music here.' I found it very interesting, even though at that time I was buying tons of CDs all the time and stuff, but it was still exciting to see what you could do with it. So I was following the scene very closely."

He continued: "SABATON was never a big band before this whole thing changed, the music scene, so we have only seen the possibilities of using this, and we have used it. So while we have a lot of colleagues who have lost sales and no longer see their hundreds of thousands or millions of sales that they had in the past, we never had that. So every album for us is better and better. So I've seen the change, I've been part of it, and I find it very exciting. There's no way to change it. I think the most stupid of all things was the people who tried to fight against it instead of evolving towards it. 'Cause if this can be seen as one of the biggest revolutions that ever happened in the world, you have billions of people who want something, and then you have only very, very few who try to stand against it, try to prevent people from getting what they want. And since when [does] that happen? You need superior a lot if you wanna be just a few people who try to control billions, you know. It's not gonna work. So I think that a lot of labels and a lot of managers and a lot of people, they were too old. If they would have been growing up in times, seeing things… being part of this thing as we were, the music industry would have adapted much quicker and learned a way to earn money from it, 'cause there should be."

Last September, SABATON announced a new EP trilogy titled "Echoes Of The Great War". The trilogy features new songs specifically about World War I, coupled with topically related catalog music.

SABATON climbed the international charts with its tenth studio album, "The War To End All Wars", securing No. 1 positions in Germany, Austria, Sweden, Poland, Hungary and Finland. Having achieved the top position for the second time in Germany, Sweden and Finland, the album peaked at No. 1 in Poland, Hungary and Austria for the first time in the band’s career. This and additional outstanding results in other territories have made "The War To End All Wars" SABATON's most successful album so far.

Photo credit: Tim Tronckoe

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