Breakin' Bread
On streaming, a play earns a maker a fraction of a cent — paid months later, through pools you can't audit. On Breakin' Bread, one direct purchase earns them more than a thousand streams — paid in days, every cent traceable. More support, faster, means more and better music.
One direct sale vs streaming
€4.52
to the maker · 90% of the sale
paid in days · every cent traceable
1,291
streams on Spotify
at ≈ $0.0035 per stream
paid months later · pooled · unverifiable
The track's share is split automatically between everyone on it — participants and contributors, by their agreed splits — and each of you chooses when to get paid out.
Faster
Paid in days, not the streaming quarter-cycle
Direct
No label, distributor or pool skimming in between
Verifiable
Every split visible; nothing pooled or hidden
Per-stream figures are conservative 2025 averages in USD (≈ EUR here), last reviewed June 2026. There is no fixed per-stream rate — every service pools subscription & ad revenue per country and pays pro-rata by stream share, so amounts vary by deal, country and plan and will keep changing. That opacity is precisely why streaming can't be verified. BB's numbers are exact and shown in full above. “YouTube (video)” is ad-supported / Content ID; “YouTube Music” is the paid tier.
Sources: RouteNote, 2025 · Royalty Exchange, 2025 · Musicstax royalty calculator
Direct sales settle in days. Streaming pays on a quarterly cycle, after distributors and intermediaries take their turn.
Your money goes to the maker — not a label advance, a distributor, or a pooled payout that skims on the way.
Every split is shown in full. Streaming payouts are pooled and pro-rata — impossible to verify, by design.
BB is your everyday home — make, protect, share, and get paid directly, all from one place. More direct support means you can make more, and better, music.
When you buy direct, almost all of it reaches the maker — and you get something streaming never gives you: a real, owned connection to the music.
Breakin' Bread isn't a streaming service, a distributor, or a label. We don't pool payouts, we don't take your masters, and we don't hide the numbers. We're the direct, transparent home where music is made, owned, and bought straight from the maker.