Home Music Lane

It's all about the music, dude! Sit down, relax and listen to some tunes.

Fair point

And true that $10/mo subscribers only accounts for a portion of Spotify users. I cite that rate because it seems to be the standard rate available for unlimited use of any of the major streaming services. None of them are sustainable.

I don't know specifically at what rate it's sustainable. Perhaps if every household in the US did subscribe at $10/mo it would work. Perhaps given a realistic rate of subscription it would need to be $50/mo to be sustainable. What I do know is the current rates (in whatever distribution they exist) are paltry and it takes tens of thousands of plays to equal the revenue of a single album purchase on iTunes. The rate of revenue is far, far short of being sustainable, and is not a matter of a few more people signing up.

Dave


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