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It's quite fascinating to see the comments on this article as it's pretty obvious who clicked the link and who only looked at the title here at Hacker News. The
by judofyr 6y ago
It's quite fascinating to see the comments on this article as it's pretty obvious who clicked the link and who only looked at the title here at Hacker News. The article itself is called "Pro Rata and User Centric Distribution Models: A Comparative Study" and it's a study showing the difference between "pro rata" (what's happening today) and "user centric" (a user gives their money to the artists _they_ listen to). The fact about the "top 0.4% artists" is just one of the results they found while sampling 10k tracks.
- dmitriid 6y agoI'd also wish all these "studies" brought in the Big Four record labels into the equations [1] as they are the ones primarily responsible for this. [1] See "Consolidation", https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_industry?wprov=sfti1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_industry?wprov=sfti1
- dtech 6y agoYou can link to a header in a wikipedia article by using #Header name https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_industry#Consolidation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_industry#Consolidation
- dmitriid 6y agoI was posting from mobile and Wikipedia's otherwise excellent mobile app doesn't offer a way to share a link to a heading (or I haven't found it yet :) )
- cat199 6y agoYou can link to a header in a wikipedia article by using #Header name https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_industry#Consolidation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_industry#Consolidation
- jonplackett 6y agoThe reason for it is that if they didn’t the the big artists wouldn’t put their music on Spotify because they’d get so little money. Correct me if I’m wrong but it looks like a smaller artists are essentially subsidising the larger ones.