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Here was a good perspective from a 'smaller artist' (on Merge and Secretly Canadian) from reddit on this subject: http://www.reddit.com/r/Music/comments/2ld32y/

by jmagoon 12y ago

Here was a good perspective from a 'smaller artist' (on Merge and Secretly Canadian) from reddit on this subject: http://www.reddit.com/r/Music/comments/2ld32y/the_1_hit_single_wake_me_up_by_avicii_was/cltpz8l http://www.reddit.com/r/Music/comments/2ld32y/the_1_hit_sing... Basically, they have seen decreased sales, increased streaming, and no increase in touring opportunities due to streaming services.

hamedh 12y ago
Your music have been heard by more people due to streaming, but it doesn't necessarily mean it was good enough (or the right type of music) for people to pay to come to see you in concert
- freehunter 12y ago
  That's a big thing, and it's hard to solve too, in both directions. Some might argue that artists don't get a fair shake when someone just hears one song in a playlist of other songs. Some even claim that you can't listen to one song, you have to listen to the album (Garth Brooks and Pink Floyd are two examples). On the other side of the coin, who here has bought an album after hearing one song on the radio, only to find out the rest of the album sounds completely different? I know much of my family bought Kid Rock's album when "Picture" came out on the radio, only to find out he's a rock/rap artist, not a country artist. They spent $20 on literally one song. I've done that on Spotify. I hear a song I like and go to the entire album, to find I hate the rest of the album. That's fine. That one song goes in my playlist and I listen to it over and over again, and the artist gets paid for making a song I enjoy, rather than me not buying their album because I know there is only one song I will enjoy.
kenjackson 12y ago
Streaming creates non-fans. Buying a CD creates a fan. In some rare occasion I'll hear something I like so much that I then download the album, but in most cases I just stream a subgenre of music. The end result is that I don't know any artist very well, although I'm well versed in the subgenre. I have no desire to go to a show, as I don't know any artists. Buying a CD, while a bigger decision, almost entrenches you as a fan. I'm much more likely to want to go to a Taylor Swift concert if I've listened to her CD 100 times (and I'm almost certainly not going to listen to ANY album 100 times with Spotify). Neither model is better than the other to me. But they are different, and value accrues in different ways for the models.
- poloniculmov 12y ago
  My experience is totally different. Streaming made a fan of so many artists because I can listen to a whole album and connect to their music. And it also made go to a lot more shows, because I can get familiar with the artists before the show. I guess that the difference might come from the fact I've never been a big buyer of CDs, growing up in Eastern Europe meant that I couldn't really afford music so pirating MP3's was the norm.

by jmagoon 12y ago

hamedh 12y ago

Your music have been heard by more people due to streaming, but it doesn't necessarily mean it was good enough (or the right type of music) for people to pay to come to see you in concert

freehunter 12y ago
That's a big thing, and it's hard to solve too, in both directions. Some might argue that artists don't get a fair shake when someone just hears one song in a playlist of other songs. Some even claim that you can't listen to one song, you have to listen to the album (Garth Brooks and Pink Floyd are two examples). On the other side of the coin, who here has bought an album after hearing one song on the radio, only to find out the rest of the album sounds completely different? I know much of my family bought Kid Rock's album when "Picture" came out on the radio, only to find out he's a rock/rap artist, not a country artist. They spent $20 on literally one song. I've done that on Spotify. I hear a song I like and go to the entire album, to find I hate the rest of the album. That's fine. That one song goes in my playlist and I listen to it over and over again, and the artist gets paid for making a song I enjoy, rather than me not buying their album because I know there is only one song I will enjoy.

kenjackson 12y ago

Streaming creates non-fans. Buying a CD creates a fan. In some rare occasion I'll hear something I like so much that I then download the album, but in most cases I just stream a subgenre of music. The end result is that I don't know any artist very well, although I'm well versed in the subgenre. I have no desire to go to a show, as I don't know any artists. Buying a CD, while a bigger decision, almost entrenches you as a fan. I'm much more likely to want to go to a Taylor Swift concert if I've listened to her CD 100 times (and I'm almost certainly not going to listen to ANY album 100 times with Spotify). Neither model is better than the other to me. But they are different, and value accrues in different ways for the models.

poloniculmov 12y ago
My experience is totally different. Streaming made a fan of so many artists because I can listen to a whole album and connect to their music. And it also made go to a lot more shows, because I can get familiar with the artists before the show. I guess that the difference might come from the fact I've never been a big buyer of CDs, growing up in Eastern Europe meant that I couldn't really afford music so pirating MP3's was the norm.