Welcome to Juniper Stream

Fair-trade music streaming by Young World Records

Nashville's premier music streaming service and best Spotify alternative - where the majority of your subscription fee goes directly to the artists you actually listen to—not to AI war toys.

For Artists

We throw the pay-per-play model out the window and instead pay you by the percentage of time a subscriber listens to your music. If a subscriber spends 80% of their time listening to your catalog, you get 80% of their artist payout. That simple. No 1000 play minimums, nobody disrespecting how hard it is to get a record over the finish line. We know how hard making records is because we make records too.

For Listeners

You might currently be paying a major streaming brand $12 a month, but are actually only streaming $3-$5 worth of music with the pay-per-play model. So where does the rest of your subscription go?...Other artists you didn't listen to and possibly AI war toys, which isn't where we believe most fans and artists want their money going. At Juniper enjoy 100% AI-free music made by real artists with bigger album art views, and rest assured knowing that your subscription payout only pays the artists you listen to. We've also recently launched the Record Store Connect feature that allows you to see where what you streaming is available on vinyl.

For Record Stores

The Record Store Connect is live and ready for artists, management, and record stores to add inventory. We know the stigma and the historical rivalry between record stores and streaming services. We hope to heal that divide and connect local record stores to fans. Listeners can now see where the music they listen to is locally available on vinyl.

For Us

Juniper's subscription fee is $10. Out of that $10, to keep the lights on, we take $2. The remaining $8 is the artist payout. That artist payout is divided between the artists a subscriber listens to based on percetage of listening time. If a subscriber spends 20% percent of their listening time in a month on Kacey Musgraves, then Kacey Musgraves gets 20% of that subscribers $8 artist payout. That simple.

For Labels & Management

Because Juniper pays by percentage of listening time, thus eliminating fake streams, you get a clearer, more accurate view of how many fans an artist actually has. No more guessing if an artist's numbers are real. With Juniper, listeners are actually listening. Fake streams don't make anyone money here, but you get more accuracy when trying to figure out how many tickets an artist can sell in a city. You don't book a stadium tour based off streaming numbers that were faked by bots. You don't print 8x as much merch as you actually needed. You don't press 10,000 vinyl when you only needed 3,000. You get the point. We're making your job easier.

For Streaming

Goodbye fake streams. With Juniper's listening time payout model, the number of streams is no longer a factor in payout. 2 streams could be 50% of an artist's payout if a subscriber only listened to 4 songs in a month. With Juniper's model, a subscriber could listen to an artist 1,000,000 times in one month, but the maximum payout would still only be $8. This is a built-in safeguard against fake streams because it's not the number of streams an artist gets, it's the percentage of listening time they get. This is fair for artists and saves the streaming industry from losing what Rolling Stone Magazine estimated as $300 million a year from fake streams.

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