[Sealy]

You raise a very good point aresant. Its a point which everybody should understand.

It is not interesting to post a story which says "Pandora Paid Over $1,300 for 1 Million Plays" but it is very interesting to post a story which says "My Song Got Played On Pandora 1 Million Times and All I Got Was $16.89"

I watched Mike Arrington (founder of TechCrunch) talk about PR on youtube at a startup seminar and he raised this exact point. Regardless of your agenda, a controversial story is far more newsworthy and will get you more coverage then a regular story.

[walshemj]

It should be My Song Got Played On Pandora 1 Million Times and All I Got Was $1300.

Compare that to what they would have got had it been on the rotation on Radio 1.

Note as the article says in the rest of the world unlike the usa terrestrial radio does pay for the songs it plays.