thanx for that David, I'm slowly understanding the topic more on each post.
on first reading I mistakenly thought the artist made 13 one hundredths of a cent per play ...re-reading I see that it's the label that makes that $00.0013 and takes their cut before the artist receives his/their $00.0003 or so ?
geeze, that's even less than a mil. (1/20th of a cent)