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by hatfieej 4415 days ago
Glad to see someone mention this. A quick calculation using the listener formula from (http://www.radio-media.com/song-album/articles/airplay66.htm...) says his cumulative 3 month total is equivalent to a single song play on the top station in Indianapolis, IN. Or equivalent to 0.6% (6/10 of a percent) of the number of simultaneous listeners from the top station from every market across the country. At the Pureplay rate of $0.0021 per play, he'd receive $4971 for the same number of plays as his song being played just a single time on the top radio station in every US market. It's not the fault of streaming music services that he made so little, it's just that his music isn't listened to by many people over a 3 month period on those services.