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I find the graphic very misleading in that it mixes units. It seems very reasonable that price-per-album would be 10x the price-per-song since an album general
by CoffeeDregs 13y ago
I find the graphic very misleading in that it mixes units. It seems very reasonable that price-per-album would be 10x the price-per-song since an album generally has about 10 songs on it. It also seems reasonable that price-per-song would be 50x price-per-play (using low-end royalty deal and Rhapsody payments) since, on average, I probably play songs about 50 times before I move on. So for synthesizing "replacing album revenue" the Rhapsody payments seem fair.
"Replacing radio revenue" [ie. you don't control song order/flow] seems to be about 30% of "replacing album revenue" so Pandora is $3/month instead of $10/month.
If the above is reasonable then Spotify seems well off the mark on pricing. Also, I don't understand why the label share is 80% of revenue.