Unfortunately, you ignore other critical data, such as being able to bring that music with you, and the quality of the music being played. Pandora music requir

Unfortunately, you ignore other critical data, such as being able to bring that music with you, and the quality of the music being played. Pandora music requires a subscription. iTunes music does not. You can take the iTunes music with you. Pandora you cannot. iTunes music can be listend to outside the US. Pandora music cannot. Finally, Pandora will pay whether you actually listen to the music or not. Whether you choose the music or not. You receive substantially less with Pandora, as a customer. You effectively receive the same thing you'd get from Radio. So, this means you have to look at why people buy music rather than simply listen to it on the radio or something like Pandora or Spotify. I buy music because I want to own that music, and listen to it. I want the higher quality. The majority (let's say 99%") of the purchase price is going towards the intent of purchasing it, and owning it to listen to it whenever I want. Using your equally made up numbers and assumptions, that would equate to $0.01 of every $1 for a song going toward the value of listening. Using your 10 play rule, that's $0.001 per play, or less than pandora. Now, you might disagree with my math, but hey, if you can't invent numbers, so can I (and technically speaking, mine is far more correct than yours). More importantly, you can assert this is founded on logic by asking yourself: Would you pay $1.00 for a song you could only ever listen to 10 times? If the answer to that is no, then your argument doesn't hold water.