Global music market grew by 18.5% in 2021, driven by paid subscription streaming

Re:Global music market grew by 18.5% in 2021, driven by paid... by zuminator on Thursday March 24, 2022 @05:09PM (#30795372)

Money is fungible. If you do $5 worth of streaming OBX's music, they'll get $5. Whether that gets transferred directly from your personal Spotify account into theirs, or initially put into a "big pot" and then the same amount is given to them, what does it matter? Maybe I'm misunderstanding your issue?

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Re:Global music market grew by 18.5% in 2021, driven by paid... by colinmhayes on Thursday March 24, 2022 @06:12PM (#30796016)

Here's the problem. I've got a family spotify subscription. For $15 a month we get 4 accounts. Each of us listen to around 100,000 minutes of music a year. Lets call that 100,000 songs for $180. If every song has the same payout then my family is being subsidized by the people who spend $10 a month to listen to 30,000 minutes of music a year. We're effectively taking other people's subscription money to pay the artists we listen to.

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Re:Global music market grew by 18.5% in 2021, driven by paid... by lmm on Thursday March 24, 2022 @09:18PM (#30797676)

The argument as I understand it is: Basic Alice streams the top 40 for 9 hours and pays $5, and Hipster Bob streams a band you haven't heard of for 1 hour and pays $5. Band you haven't heard of was responsible for $5 of revenue, but they only get $1 because they were only responsible for 1/10th of the streaming time.

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Re:Global music market grew by 18.5% in 2021, driven by paid... by snthd on Thursday March 24, 2022 @09:01PM (#30797590)

https://www.deezer.com/us/ucps explains it.

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