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Musician's Guide to Streaming: Pros & Cons, Spotify Et Al

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A good summary of current options for those still trying to earn money in the post-CD era ...

http://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2 ... ing-m.html
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Babz wrote:A good summary of current options for those still trying to earn money in the post-CD era ...

http://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2 ... ing-m.html
I'll check it out. I have to say, I know that the CD is fading, but interestingly enough, I have a certain number of fans of my music that perhaps because of the genre, they're 45 or older, and many of them still prefer CDs, so the days of not pressing them at all isn't quite here yet.

I'm going to move this post to the "Music Business" forum. :)
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Babz wrote:A good summary of current options for those still trying to earn money in the post-CD era ...

http://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2 ... ing-m.html
Here is another article, and it doesn't paint a rosy picture at all.

http://www.salon.com/2014/08/31/david_l ... musicians/
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I noticed I do get payed for streaming anywhere from .002-.009CAD I guess depending on where it streams to.
I've never really thought about how internet radio royalties works
does someone just pay the .002 cents stream it into their radio data base and that's it?
The reason I'm thinking that is because some of my stuff streams to multiple countries just once and that's it.
Or it could be once is enough of that I don't know.
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wylie1 wrote:I noticed I do get payed for streaming anywhere from .002-.009CAD I guess depending on where it streams to.
I've never really thought about how internet radio royalties works
does someone just pay the .002 cents stream it into their radio data base and that's it?
The reason I'm thinking that is because some of my stuff streams to multiple countries just once and that's it.
Or it could be once is enough of that I don't know.
Here's another article that has info on streaming, even some in the comments. It's all new to me as well.

http://www.digitalmusicnews.com/permali ... 9-problems
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here's what you get for a million streams on various platforms...

http://thetrichordist.com/2014/11/12/th ... ns-to-you/
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'An artist needs to generate THREE MILLION PLAYS on the two largest and most popular streaming platforms to equal just 1,125 album downloads from Itunes.'
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Helena_Birk12 wrote:in other words it's called stealing
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