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Re:Carving out a niche as a small artist on Spotify by fao_ on Saturday June 27, 2020 @12:41AM (#23659560)
> which someone would have to listen to 471 times to reach Spotify pricing.

You might have misphrased, but in the event you didn't: How does listening to a CD generate revenue?

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Re:Carving out a niche as a small artist on Spotify by sameerds on Saturday June 27, 2020 @04:09AM (#23660281)
I think the comparison goes somewhat like this: selling one CD puts X dollars in the creator's pocket. How many times need a track be played on Spotify to generate the same number of dollars? The answer is 471, I think.
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Re:Carving out a niche as a small artist on Spotify by fao_ on Saturday June 27, 2020 @09:39PM (#23666159)
Right, but the way it was phrased was that it was the CD that was being listened to. I was curious.
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Re:Carving out a niche as a small artist on Spotify by mattmcknight on Sunday June 28, 2020 @06:57PM (#23672724)
Yeah, I was saying if you bought a CD you would pay $15 for 10 tracks, or $1.50 per track. You would have to listen to that CD 471 times for the cost per listen per track to reach what Spotify pays the artist per stream.
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