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How about production cost for music? I have no figures for that but I can imagine that producing (most) music has become cheaper. Further, I would put the hypo

• Trombone12 5y ago
  I think the real savings are on the distribution side, but at the same time what actually counts as a "sale" is pretty blurry on streaming services. Anyway, the real question is how the net income compares to living expenses, and how that had developed over time.
• tialaramex 5y ago
  Production costs vary enormously. For example if you're Marc Rebillet you improv everything, Marc has a loop sampler, a couple of laptops, a keyboard synth, headphones and and a microphone, he makes noises, or sings, and the loop sampler creates rhythm because that's how loops work - so he's "just" on the fly coming up with the words and the tune. Maybe Marc spends 10 minutes going from silence to a backing track and then puts together a 5 minute song about, I dunno, how amazing squirrels are, "Tree Rat God Freak". Seems to me that's 15 minutes and if a thousand people stream it and Marc gets paid $4 for that it's a profitable use of his 15 minutes. [ Of course because watching this happen live is fascinating people actually pay to watch Marc on Twitch, so he gets more than $4 before the song is even finished ] On the other hand, maybe you spend six months composing an orchestral piece, you need a full orchestra to perform it, that takes them several hours to rehearse and get it down, and then a million streams of that doesn't really pay everybody for their time.