"I had a statement a while back and one of my songs had had over a million plays, million streams, and it was £37," he continued. "I got £37 from a million streams."
About another example, Numan told Sky News, "I printed out, I think it was about a year ago, a statement - my streaming statement came in and I didn't look at it, I just put it to print, and I looked over about half an hour later, it was still printing. It was hundreds and hundreds of pages. And the end of it was, like, £112. It was barely worth the [paper] it was printed on, and it took nearly half an hour to print. You know, it's so much stuff, so much streaming, and there's absolutely nothing in it."
Numan's comments come as a Department for Digital, Culture, Media, and Sport inquiry looks into streaming payments; Radiohead's Ed O'Brien, Elbow's Guy Garvey, and Nadine Shah all testified back in November, and on Tuesday (1/19), label heads from Sony Music, Warner Music, and Universal Music, along with licensing body representatives, appeared for a third session. Music Ally has a very thorough breakdown of what was discussed.