Pennies per play is a hard metric to grok. Let's compare this to CDs. Assume a CD costs $10, and half of that goes towards the distribution of the physical med

Pennies per play is a hard metric to grok. Let's compare this to CDs. Assume a CD costs $10, and half of that goes towards the distribution of the physical media. It has maybe ten tracks. If you listen to it every day for a few months that's roughly the same "price per play" if I'm doing my math right. Maybe that's a little high for an estimate, but streaming is still within an order of magnitude, and probably reaches way more customers than a given CD track ever did.