> 150k streams p/month is absolutely nothing compared to the artists that the major labels are interested in. I said 150k unique listeners, not streams. Also,

> 150k streams p/month is absolutely nothing compared to the artists that the major labels are interested in. I said 150k unique listeners, not streams. Also, you're entirely wrong about this. The 100k-250k range is a very distinct tier of band, and those bands are ubiquitously on record labels. So, your insistence that labels aren't even interested in them is the exact opposite of reality. > Record labels that the likes of “Sub-Radio” are suited to have always be and will continue to act as taste makers and curators, and not large money making organisations (and for the better). Even the large indies like Sub Pop, Stones Throw, and K7 operate in completely different seperate financial and reach realms than Universal, Warner and the like. They operate at different scales because of the overall size of the rosters and the major label's ability to literally throw away cash at every turn just to maintain superiority. That doesn't mean major labels don't manage projects that are operating at smaller scales, because they absolutely do. They're called "subsidiaries" and they fit directly in the category that you're pretending doesn't exist. > Major labels aren’t going anywhere. Nobody said they were, so your entire argument was made with a false premise. The point was that they aren't necessary anymore.