The renowned crypto-powered music streaming platform, Audius celebrates its 250 million on-chain song stream, offering rewards to users and artists with AUDIO tokens. The reward season of Audius kicks off with artists receiving Solana token through airdrop, and users later.
Audius, the popular crypto-streaming music platform has announced the airdrop and reward system, creating an alluring season for artists and users of the platform. The platform delivers 30 million AUDIO tokens worth $3 million to the users, marking the accomplishment of crossing 250 million on-chain song streams from users.
The rewarding plan sets off with an airdrop to artists, delivering 2 million AUDIO tokens for artists, an appreciation for their immense participation, which is branded as ‘Artist Appreciation Airdrop’ on their official page. The streams, revenue, sales, followers, and other criteria will determine the number of tokens an artist receives through the airdrop. According to official reports, 1174 artists are eligible for the AUDIUS airdrop.
Not just the artists, the listeners are also the key players in achieving the milestone, and they will also receive rewards, but after some time. This airdrop campaign is the first since 2020, the platform conducted $AUDIO airdrop during the token launch back in 2020, and the second time in its entire history. During the first airdrop, Audius delivered 50 million $AUDIO tokens to their top 10,000 artists and fans.
After attaining the 250 million milestone, Ronil Rumberg, CEO of Audius said that artists have always been their motivation and that everything they do on the platform is with the help of artists. He also added that from day one their aim was to become a backbone of a new music industry and with 250 million on-chain streams, it’s time for market rewards and payments.
Reviewing the history, Audius has streamed music from renowned artists such as Skrillex, Deadmau5, Disclosure, etc. In September 2024, the platform launched an ‘artist monetization program’, allowing artists to set their terms and pricing conditions free of cost when listing downloadable ‘premium tracks’ for sale. In addition, 10% of every payment is allocated to the community treasury.
Though the on-chain governance and operations are built on Ethereum, a leading blockchain platform, its monetization is built on Solana, allowing the platform to cross 250 million on-chain streams, as per the company statement. This makes the airdrop and reward system to take place on Solana and not Ethereum.
Audius is aiming to expand the season of rewards but only after a successful season 1. With season 1, which is likely to take a few months to complete, 30 million tokens will be distributed, which is only 3% of its total 1.5 billion supply. ‘Big day for the Audius community- and this airdrop is just the beginning, 30 mm tokens in the reward system ready to be claimed for those who want to participate, Let’s build the future of music together’, Ronil Rumberg shared in his X post.
Why AUDIUS Airdrop?
The AUDIUS airdrop, held on 12 February 2025, will distribute 2 million AUDIUS tokens to 1,174 artists, for their contribution to the Audius ecosystem Artists chosen for the airdrop receives a minimum of 500 AUDIO and a maximum of 27,906 AUDIO, based on their engagement and impact on the Audius platform.
This airdrop marks the second airdrop of Audius, the first was during the $AUDIO token launch back in 2020. The 2025 airdrop is a way to appreciate artists for making Audius what it is today. In addition to artists, respectable titles who have been a key player in the community growth, also were eligible for receiving the airdrop including bitbird, Coop Records, College Music, Headroom Records, and Anjunadeep.