Re:FunkWhale: Decentralized Music Server
by vinniec on Thursday January 21, 2021 @08:09PM
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Beautiful calculation.
Let's say that if you listen to music for 3 hours a day then it is as if every month you spend 5$ which goes to divide for all the artists you listen to, every month.
So you have to listen to an artist 100 hours to compensate for the purchase of an album, it's not something you do with every artist you know.
For streaming music, let's say you're listening to the artists music in the USA (meaning your streams are worth the most). Let's also assume an average song length of 4 minutes and an average per-stream payment to the artist of $0.003526648542 dollars since you're in the USA[1]. In this world, if you listen to that artist for 3 hours a day, every day, for all 30 days in a month, then you will listen to 1350 songs from that artist and earn them ~$4.76 with all your listening.
So while it is possible that you could listen to an artist so much on a streaming platform that you give them more than if you buy an album, I wouldn't call it super likely.
[0] - https://www.recordingconnection.com/reference-library/record...
[1] - https://www.igroovemusic.com/blog/wie-viel-erhalte-ich-pro-s...