| It's obviously all numbers. How much do you pay for Spotify a month? $5 or $10? Or free, in which case how much does Spotify get for an ad impression, and how many ad impressions do you get served in a month? Now, how many songs listens do you get in a month? Assuming Spotify takes absolutely $0 for themselves, how much money can that possibly be? Now, what in your opinion is a "fair" amount to pay artists for a listen to their song? Multiply that by the number of songs that you listen to. Would you pay that for a service? I'm guessing that I play a few thousand Spotify songs a month (I don't know where that statistic would be). I pay Spotify $5 a month. If I only listen to 1,000 songs, that's $0.005 per listen. And that's assuming that Spotify passes EVERYTHING along to the musician (how to studio techs get paid again?) If people won't pay the "fair" price for music to listen to it, then the price isn't fair. It's a consumer's market. It sucks that the musician got $16 for 90,000 listens. That's $0.00017 per listen. That's clearly not enough for that artist to live on, but there's no mention of how many sales they received from their attention on Spotify. It's a complex problem. There's probably no simple solution that will satisfy everyone. Clearly, the main people who are making money with Spotify is Spotify themselves (since they minimize the amount of bandwidth by using P2P technology)...but even if they passed more along, it wouldn't make the artists happy. |