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In Reply to: RE: You are confused ! posted by akltam on May 08, 2015 at 08:11:25
I am often confused.
My point was that $25-$35 didn't seem unreasonable, regardless of the delivery medium. No, I had not seen $60 downloads. Looking through the Blue Cloud list, I see lots of $15 and $20 albums, and some more expensive. I don't automatically categorize the more expensive ones as rip-offs; more likely they were projects they wanted to do even though sales were likely to be very small.
I salute them for doing it. At least *someone* in the performance/production chain is getting paid, and I hope the artist is getting a good chunk of it. If it's not a good value for you, then move on; we each pick our poison.
Cheers,
WW
"A man need merely light the filaments of his receiving set and the world's greatest artists will perform for him." Alfred N. Goldsmith, RCA, 1922
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Tell me does the artist get more money on a DSD download versus a MP3 download??
I don't know of any DSD sites that let artists upload their music for streaming. If you know of any, take a look at them and let us know.
Streaming royalties at sites like Spotify and Pandora run between $0.006 and $0.0084 per stream. This week, an appeals court upheld a lower court's decision against ASCAP, which had sued Pandora for higher reimbursement rates. There is a pretty good breakdown of the royalty payments at the link.
My big concern, with apologies to the OP for hijacking the original thread, is that the current streaming royalty system isn't sustainable. Songwriters and performers cannot make a living from their recordings. Instead, they have to make recordings and get them on to the streaming sites as a way to market live concerts. (It used to be the opposite: performers used to do concerts to promote recordings.) Given that gigs at local clubs can't pay much of anything, artists have to become big enough to do arenas before they can make money from their work.
A corollary to this is the often heard belief that "music should be free." A significant chunk of the music-listening population are used to either free music, or music so cheap as to be virtually free. It's a nice thought, until you take the artists into account. This has to change, and there are signs of progress. David Byrne joining the board of SoundExchange, which administers Pandora's royalties, is a step in the right direction.
WW
"A man need merely light the filaments of his receiving set and the world's greatest artists will perform for him." Alfred N. Goldsmith, RCA, 1922
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