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It's unfair to compare streaming one song to selling an album. A CD enables me to hear a track an infinite number of times, with Hi-Fi quality, in my car, livin
by hobbes78 13y ago
It's unfair to compare streaming one song to selling an album. A CD enables me to hear a track an infinite number of times, with Hi-Fi quality, in my car, living room or on the go. With a €3.49 Spotify subscription, one play is heard on the PC, requiring an Internet connection and not in top quality (only 160 kbps). The article seems to compare the rent of an apartment to buying a two-floor house...
- anigbrowl 13y agoyou're right, but... Since we own our own recordings, by my calculation it would take songwriting royalties for roughly 312,000 plays on Pandora to earn us the profit of one-- one-- LP sale. A two-story house is not worth 300k times more than the monthly rent on a small apartment. 300 times yes, 3000 times make. Not 300,000 times.
- anigbrowl 13y agoSince then I've noticed a correction on the article which suggests the multiple should be 3000, rather than 300,000.