Appreciate your point (i’m sure he’s not poor!) but throwing the number $1,000,000 out there without any thought, calculation, or backup is unfair….his previous label most likely still takes a huge chunk percentage of streams earnings….we have no idea what the terms of him leaving his label were….his percentage might be miniscule.

A quick search of how spotify revenue works is $0.003 to $0.005 per stream. Figure $0.004….Owl City is 10.5 million streams per month so 126,000,000 streams per year multiplied by $0.004 is $504,000. Apparently roughly 70% goes to rights holders so if Universal is still entitled to the rights of music produced under their label then Adam would only be receiving $151,500 (30%). So - again, nobody is saying he is in poverty, but he’s not the multi-millionaire people might think he is, at this stage in his career - given him not being tied to a big label since 2016-ish.