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Re:What Pandora Pays Top Artists by w1ntermute on Tuesday October 09, 2012 @05:46PM (#4634132)
Right, I get what the differences in the models are between Pandora and other services. I'm referring to how the artists and/or the music itself differs that causes them to fit into this strange category.
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Re:What Pandora Pays Top Artists by earbitscom on Tuesday October 09, 2012 @07:27PM (#4634406)
The number of artists in Pandora's catalog is very small relative to all other mainstream services (because of the cost burden of onboarding artists into the Music Genome Project, a manual process). So, put an unknown artist that sounds like Coldplay into rotation and every user who starts a Coldplay channel is going to get them a bunch of times. Do an unknown band that sounds like Guns N Roses, same thing.
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