>What can WB or any other major label offer an artist like this in exchange for the gigantic ask that is "we own all your stuff forever and btw we also own any

>What can WB or any other major label offer an artist like this in exchange for the gigantic ask that is "we own all your stuff forever and btw we also own any re-recordings of these songs"? You will never be played on the radio without a big label to pay off the programmers. Every single song you hear on the radio is bought and paid for. Spotify and other streaming revenues are a joke for the vast majority of musicians. I personally own all my music and thanks to iTunes I know how many times every song has been played over the last 15 years (from when I got my first iPod and then my iPhone and migrated all my CDs to iTunes). My most-played track would have earned the artist $.53, the median would have yielded about $.05. (And remember this is over 15 years.) And discoverability is not necessarily that great. My wife pays for Amazon music that she and the kids listen to on Amazon Echoes and in my experience, the ability to get the specific song that you want to listen to is pretty hit or miss. I suspect that most people who are still in the discovering new music stage of their lives end up getting their music discovery happening through channels that are pretty much controlled by the majors.