[guard-of-terra]

Smaller artists have it better than ever: there is a new generation of distributors like cdbaby, magnatune and the orchard. They carry a magnitude more different releases than majors/record shops ever could. If you play something, you can now reach all the audience in the world.

But of course listeners become very thin. With such enormous choice, every single artist isn't going to have more than several thousand fans on average. But it's just numbers at work.

I think that aggregators are going to surpass majors and then we'll live in a new and interesting world. I think this is coming to Europe first.