My somewhat cynical take. > If you have ever dreamed of earning money from a stellar music career but were concerned you had little talent, don’t let that put

My somewhat cynical take. > If you have ever dreamed of earning money from a stellar music career but were concerned you had little talent, don’t let that put you off Does the world need more talentless music? > California-based, Boomy, was launched at the end of 2018, and claims its users around the world have now created almost five million songs. Is there even one artist who has a stellar music career based on Boomy? > While Boomy owns the copyright to each recording, and receives the funds in the first instance, the company says it passes on 80% of the streaming royalties to the person who created the song. Since Boomy owns the copyright, it is not the user’s music. That’s fair. The algorithm is creating it, not the user. Could you perform one of these tracks on stage or in a studio? Could you play the melody on an instrument? Could you sing it? If you can’t do at least one of these things, I don’t think you can say it’s a music career. Effort = reward. Sure, sometimes lightning strikes and zero effort results in high reward. And those instances are pasted on the advertising and sell the products. This feels like selling tools to the monkeys that smash the typewriters trying to write Shakespeare. > One day he set it up to write compositions similar to those by Johann Sebastian Bach. Mr Cope then popped out for a sandwich, and returned to find that the computer had composed 5,000 Bach-inspired chorales. These were later released on an album called Bach by Design. And I doubt even one person has listened to all of them. It’s spam. > Mr Mitchell adds that more than 10,000 of its users have published over 100,000 songs in total on various streaming services. Spam. > “Eighty-five per cent of our users have never made music before,” Mr Mitchell tells the BBC. “And now we’ve got people who were paying their rent, and augmenting their income, with $100 (£74) or $200 a month from Boomy during Covid.” I don’t think $200 a month will sustain a stellar music career. That’s probably their highest earning user, that one time. I’d say the average earned is algebraically close to zero. And since I know of established artists struggling to make money on streaming services, I am somewhat suspicious of the authenticity of these numbers. > But, how good are these Boomy created songs? It has to be said that they do sound very computer generated. You wouldn’t mistake them for a group of people making music using real instruments. There it is. Related: https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/spotify-and-other-streaming-services-propose-lowest-royalty-rates-in-history-for-songwriters/ https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/spotify-and-other-str...