Where do you get those numbers from?
I'm a self published artist. I had 150k streams on Spotify last year. I only earned roughly $450. There's no label or other middleman here taking a cut. Spotify is just cheap.
You say: $450 / 150,000 = $0.003 per streamed track.
The two sets of numbers don't seem so far apart that the discrepancy cannot be explained by rounding errors.
ansc's number was $4 per thousand plays.
Your number is $3 per thousand plays.
It sounds like you basically agree with ansc. While Spotify might be cheap, that cheapness is not the problem Snoop is having.