Spotify is a better service to release your music when compared to Apple Music. Although Apple Music appears to pay more, there are more users on Spotify, and more opportunities to make use of playlisting. Spotify additionally has better suggestion algorithms that recommend your music to more people. Spotify has more than double the paid subscription count and many more free accounts that earn the platform money through advertising revenue. Compare the figures of the highest paying artists on Apple Music vs the highest pay on Spotify and you will see the value of having a bigger user base over payout per stream. Additionally, the higher payout per stream rate of Apple Music is due to a lower subscriber rate. This increases the average payout per stream because there are simply fewer streams to bring the average down.