To put this into perspective: Since we own our own recordings, by my calculation it would take songwriting royalties for roughly 312,000 plays on Pandora to earn us the profit of one –one– LP sale. (On Spotify, one LP is equivalent to 47,680 plays.)
Making Cents – Damon Krukowski of Galaxie 500 and Damon & Naomi breaks down the meager royalties currently being paid out to bands by streaming services and explains what the music business’ headlong quest for capital means for artists today.
Audio: Widowspeak – Ballad of the Golden Hour
Audio: Autre Ne Veut – Counting
Audio: Sufjan Stevens – The Star-Spangled Banner
“The white establishment is now the minority” – Bill “Mayor of Bullshit Mountain” O’Reilly
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ilovecharts: Nate Silver probability map vs. Actual map
“I don’t call him sir, mister, Alex or Ferguson. I call him boss.” — José Mourinho