The original article has been referenced/posted several times in various places (I came across a blurb in The Week) - can be found here:
http://thetrichordist.com/2013/06/24/my ... hirt-sale/
I understand the instinctive outrage.
The comments are interesting, and this site reverse engineers a higher initial payment: http://theunderstatement.com/post/53867 ... 16-dollars
Thoughts? I am interested in such dissections
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In some countries (but not the US), Space, there is a "performance royalty," so that artists and sidemen can be paid for plays and usages of the recording even if they are not song writers.
These often account for a fair amount of "black box" royalties held in accounts in markets across the world. However, at first glance (if the pie chart is accurate), it seems Pandora's rates are a bit skewed, shall we say?
I'm going to admit to talking through my hat entirely, having not read the article... And yet, having a fair amount of knowledge in this area, and having a similarly disappointing experience with online sales and streaming (although I certainly cannot claim a direct comparison at all-- the scale is thousands versus 1 million or more!)-- I know this is confusing, but what I'm trying to say is that whatever the lame justification/whacked-out reasoning/new math used, $16 is waaaaayyyy too little to make from 1 million plays. This is the new music business paradigm in action; meet the new boss, worse than the old boss (because they've now force fed us the illusion of "freedom").
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These often account for a fair amount of "black box" royalties held in accounts in markets across the world. However, at first glance (if the pie chart is accurate), it seems Pandora's rates are a bit skewed, shall we say?
I'm going to admit to talking through my hat entirely, having not read the article... And yet, having a fair amount of knowledge in this area, and having a similarly disappointing experience with online sales and streaming (although I certainly cannot claim a direct comparison at all-- the scale is thousands versus 1 million or more!)-- I know this is confusing, but what I'm trying to say is that whatever the lame justification/whacked-out reasoning/new math used, $16 is waaaaayyyy too little to make from 1 million plays. This is the new music business paradigm in action; meet the new boss, worse than the old boss (because they've now force fed us the illusion of "freedom").
GJ
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"He's about to learn the most important lesson in the music business-- 'Never trust people in the music business.' "
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