Hey nothing wrong with the math, just was always told many times what the actual artist got was. 001 to .004 cents per stream .
Then your source(s) were confused and wrong.... "many times". Line items on royalty statements are factored per dollars not cents. Glad I helped clear that up for you.
You say. 001 dollar, you are the expert, you professionally represent "both sides" (however that works) , who am I to argue?
Yep, I wrangle both sides; on occasion I circle 3 and 4 "sides". "It" works.
It has to in order to get music to peoples ears.
Despite what most people think, there's a lot of respectful collaboration between labels, distributors, producers, radio stations, artists, studio session players, etc.. While there are gripes in due course, you'd probably be surprise, maybe even amazed, with how "family oriented" most labels/distribution channel folks are actually.
The "Industry" is not just one giant evil corporate empire. It's extremely segmented and consists of many very friendly people doing regular jobs trying to deliver a quality product. Dealing with scumbags is a relative and anticipated blip. Overall is just another day at the office. LOL
Who are you to argue? You are Alobar. And I urge you and others to continue to chew and argue this subject . Makes for a much more enlightening, engaging, and educational experience. Is that not the the primary purpose of a forum?
when a household can listen to tens of millions of songs any time or place they want, presumably into perpetuity for the unbelievable price of $10 per month, can't you see just how undervalued that is? How unsustainable ?
As was mentioned before, a free market dictates the price of a product/service. As to how it's valued is completely up to the consumer. Let's try and keep this real for a minute and go back to one of my earlier unanswered questions.
What price per stream would you deem/propose as fair for an on-demand streaming service to pay a rights holder? How much money should they get for 1 million streams?
Now just because we look back at the Napster era we can justify this hogwash as somehow being better off. Even by your numbers (which a few artists here seem To disagree with ) this situation is a frigging mess for the industry or at least the part of it i care the most about.
We would all benefit hearing more from them but sadly the two artists that popped in to this thread have fled the scene. So we really don't know if they agree or "disagree" with any of what I and others have posted since they left. FWIW, the "numbers" aren't mine, they are simple facts and are what they are.
Lemme try one more analogy
per the premise of my OP and ask if it has any ring of truth to you. Let's say your are a realtor circa 2009. Your "industry" is in a death spiral. Then, 3-4 years later "industry" sales begin to recover and climb. The real estate market overall is beginning to bloom again. Please explain to me how and why you feel that scenario is not a good thing for you...a a realtor?