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Seems to be a disconnect where Chakmakian sees one Spotify/Pandora play as equal to a radio station playing a song when they are entirely different things. 14,2
by Kylekramer 12y ago
Seems to be a disconnect where Chakmakian sees one Spotify/Pandora play as equal to a radio station playing a song when they are entirely different things. 14,227 listeners is less than some college radio stations playing a song once. But you won't see an article complaining about how little musicians get from college radio stations.
- GFK_of_xmaspast 12y ago14k listeners strikes me as an awful lot for college radio.
- dmoy 12y agoDepends on the size of the Uni, and more importantly the surrounding city. Big Uni in a big city, that's easily doable. KEXP in Seattle would be one example. I guess it also depends on one's definition of 'college radio'.
- hatfieej 12y agoGlad to see someone mention this. A quick calculation using the listener formula from (http://www.radio-media.com/song-album/articles/airplay66.html http://www.radio-media.com/song-album/articles/airplay66.htm...) says his cumulative 3 month total is equivalent to a single song play on the top station in Indianapolis, IN. Or equivalent to 0.6% (6/10 of a percent) of the number of simultaneous listeners from the top station from every market across the country. At the Pureplay rate of $0.0021 per play, he'd receive $4971 for the same number of plays as his song being played just a single time on the top radio station in every US market. It's not the fault of streaming music services that he made so little, it's just that his music isn't listened to by many people over a 3 month period on those services.