A million of anything is pretty much always an insanely impossible number. Winning a million dollars, having a million Twitter followers, selling a million products—anything done a million times is something to be proud of. But maybe not getting your song streamed on Pandora a million times. All you get sometimes is 16 measly dollars. Or $16.89 to be exact. David Lowery, songwriter and musician, had his song he wrote “Low” streamed 1,159,000 times on Pandora in the past quarter. That’s a pretty huge number, right? Certainly more than the 116,260 times “Low” was streamed on Spotify or the 179 times Sirius XM played the song. The difference was Spotify paid $12.05 for the 100,000 times and Sirius paid more than a dollar per play ($181.94). So how the heck did Pandora get away with just paying 16 bucks for a million plays? It’s the government’s fault.