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After 4,175,149 Plays, Pandora Pays Bette Midler $144.21

6 points by Jupe 12y ago

brownbat 12y ago
UPDATE: Pandora's response: "We love Bette’s music and certainly respect her advocacy for fair compensation for artists," a Pandora spokesperson said in response to this story. "But we must clarify an important fact: Pandora paid more than $6,400 for those 4+ million plays, based on our 2014 rates which are published publicly. In terms of compensation to the creative community Pandora remains by far the highest paying form of radio. Pandora pays songwriters a greater percentage of revenue than terrestrial radio. And Pandora paid 48% of our revenue in performance royalties to rights-holders in 2013 – more than $300 million – while terrestrial radio was required to pay nothing." http://www.billboard.com/biz/articles/news/digital-and-mobile/6039697/bette-midler-disparages-pandora-spotify-over-artist http://www.billboard.com/biz/articles/news/digital-and-mobil... Older rebuttals during the original Thom Yorke / RIAA campaign: Forbes estimates Spotify royalties per listener are almost double those of terrestrial radio: http://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2013/07/17/spotify-royalties-appear-to-be-awfully-high-despite-what-thom-yorke-says/ http://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2013/07/17/spotify-r... The artist doesn't see most of the royalties, the payouts from Pandora / Spotify can be orders of magnitude larger than the check the artist sees: http://theunderstatement.com/post/53867665082/pandora-pays-far-more-than-16-dollars http://theunderstatement.com/post/53867665082/pandora-pays-f... (This is a problem worth examining too, but it's a different problem.) Tim Westergren makes some additional points, like Pandora's value for promotion is higher than terrestrial radio, and how many artists actually support Pandora's model: http://blog.pandora.com/2013/06/26/pandora-and-royalties/ http://blog.pandora.com/2013/06/26/pandora-and-royalties/

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After 4,175,149 Plays, Pandora Pays Bette Midler $144.21

6 points by Jupe 12y ago

brownbat 12y ago
UPDATE: Pandora's response: "We love Bette’s music and certainly respect her advocacy for fair compensation for artists," a Pandora spokesperson said in response to this story. "But we must clarify an important fact: Pandora paid more than $6,400 for those 4+ million plays, based on our 2014 rates which are published publicly. In terms of compensation to the creative community Pandora remains by far the highest paying form of radio. Pandora pays songwriters a greater percentage of revenue than terrestrial radio. And Pandora paid 48% of our revenue in performance royalties to rights-holders in 2013 – more than $300 million – while terrestrial radio was required to pay nothing." http://www.billboard.com/biz/articles/news/digital-and-mobile/6039697/bette-midler-disparages-pandora-spotify-over-artist http://www.billboard.com/biz/articles/news/digital-and-mobil... Older rebuttals during the original Thom Yorke / RIAA campaign: Forbes estimates Spotify royalties per listener are almost double those of terrestrial radio: http://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2013/07/17/spotify-royalties-appear-to-be-awfully-high-despite-what-thom-yorke-says/ http://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2013/07/17/spotify-r... The artist doesn't see most of the royalties, the payouts from Pandora / Spotify can be orders of magnitude larger than the check the artist sees: http://theunderstatement.com/post/53867665082/pandora-pays-far-more-than-16-dollars http://theunderstatement.com/post/53867665082/pandora-pays-f... (This is a problem worth examining too, but it's a different problem.) Tim Westergren makes some additional points, like Pandora's value for promotion is higher than terrestrial radio, and how many artists actually support Pandora's model: http://blog.pandora.com/2013/06/26/pandora-and-royalties/ http://blog.pandora.com/2013/06/26/pandora-and-royalties/