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In 2008, Benn Jordan (aka The Flashbulb and other pseudonyms), got tired of iTunes making money from his music and receiving no revenue for it, that he personal
by 29athrowaway 6y ago
In 2008, Benn Jordan (aka The Flashbulb and other pseudonyms), got tired of iTunes making money from his music and receiving no revenue for it, that he personally shared his new album "Soundtrack To A Vacant Life" via BitTorrent.
He attached a text file to the release, explaining how he makes essentially no money from iTunes and other platforms distributing his music and invited people to buy the album from his website directly. And that strategy seems to have worked.
Radiohead released their album "In Rainbows" exclusively online and invited people to pay what they want. As a result they made much more money than they usually made with that release.
- hansjorg 6y agoHe (Benn Jordan) recently posted a very interesting YouTube video where he discusses how streaming is working out for him and other artists like him now. "Should we hate Spotify?": https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MXudOLStaXA https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MXudOLStaXA
- 29athrowaway 6y agoRelevant article from The Onion: Spotify celebrates 100th dollar given to artists. https://www.theonion.com/spotify-celebrates-100th-dollar-given-to-artists-1844943985 https://www.theonion.com/spotify-celebrates-100th-dollar-giv...