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I love this. Artists complain about Pandora, and that's fine, but they don't understand how much worse radio stations WITHOUT A DOUBT are for artists in terms o

I love this. Artists complain about Pandora, and that's fine, but they don't understand how much worse radio stations WITHOUT A DOUBT are for artists in terms of payments. I've had songs on the radio to 10's of thousands of people at least 100 times, neither I nor anyone involved has seen a dime. On Pandora, we've seen about a dime BUT that's at least what we were due.

tomasien 13y ago
Btw - should artists get more royalties? My answer is no. There's no royalty scale I know of at which a band that isn't able to make a ton of money other places could make even a LIVING on royalties. Artists are much better of building a tribe and having the tribe support them with clothing (shockingly easy to sell for a band that can move an audience emotionally), physical music, and donations (Kickstarter, passing the hat, etc.). I understand the concept of being screwed, but it's just wrong. There's no business model where someone like Pandora could pay artists a meaningful amount (10x-1000x more depending on your definition of meaningful) and still grow to any scale that matters. So take the distribution and capitalize!