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by wodenokoto 1703 days ago
Is that 30% cut from Apple/Spotify/Google really that big compared to what record stores, factories and whatnot that was involved in physical CD sales, took?
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In music (as opposed to apps), it’s not about a 30% cut, and more about a $10 _cap_ on monthly music spend by consumers. That $5-10 needs to be split across all the artists on the streaming platform in proportion to their streams. And consumers are listening to far more music these days.

A lot of people hear this and say: “well, I never spent $10/mo on CDs”. Sure, but some people used to spend $100s/mo, and now they don’t need to. I’d bet that music superfans/whales were once a very important revenue stream, just as they are for alcohol, sports teams and mobile games (likely less extreme than games though).

We are never going back to the old system, where we needed to buy each track/album we wanted to listen to.