At first I was thinking "$4 for 14k plays sounds pretty good!", but then I did a little math.

If I listen to a streaming service for 10 hours a week (seems like a plausible average?), that's about 800 songs per month. So I'm probably paying in the range of a penny per song listened to. If I played 14k songs, that's $140. So only 3% is going to the artist[1], which does actually seem fairly low.

To put it another way, he's making the same amount of my subscription as the credit card company is.

1 - We have no idea how much he's previously been paid via advances, etc.