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A win for availability and potential audience, but if it causes less people to buy your CD/USB stick/whatever at shows - perhaps a significant reduction on inco
by crtasm 3y ago
A win for availability and potential audience, but if it causes less people to buy your CD/USB stick/whatever at shows - perhaps a significant reduction on income for the majority of gigging bands?
Do any of the streaming platforms let you direct fans to your own website/Bandcamp to make a purchase?
- StackRanker3000 3y agoAre more or less acts making a living off their music now or back then? Absolute numbers and percentage-wise? How do we decide what number is "fair", or what we as a society want? Surely it's not reasonable that every band that's just started out in a garage should be making bank. I don't think that it's more difficult to be a professional musical artist or musician today than it used to be, although the business model may be different. But even if it is, I think that's a decent compromise for all the benefits the streaming services bring.
- crtasm 3y agoMy understanding is that essentially zero DIY indie bands are making notable amounts from streaming payouts.