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SoundCloud has announced a new âfan-poweredâ royalty distribution system that purports to help smaller artists compete with megastars. Under the new system, a listenerâs subscription or advertising revenue goes directly to the artists they listen to ârather than their plays being pooled,â as a press release puts it. At the time of launch, these royalty rules apply only to independent artists, meaning those not signed to the three major labels. The new system rolls out on April 1. At streaming services like Spotify, artists receive a portion of subscriber and ad income tied to their share of plays across the entire service. In other words, if you paid $9.99 for the month and streamed  Sleater-Kinney 100 times, to the exclusion of anything else, Sleater-Kinney would receive roughly 30 cents of your money. If, that same month, Drake received 5 percent of total streams by all users, he would take a 5 percent share of the portion of the $9.99 allocated t ....