Why the Major Labels Love (and Artists Hate) Music Streaming 164
Hugh Pickens DOT Com writes "Jay Frank writes that the big four music distributors and their sister publishers (Sony, Warner, UNI and EMI) make 15% more per year, on average, from paying customers of streaming services like Spotify or Rdio than it does from the average customer who buys downloads, CDs or both. Each label makes 'blanket license' deals with Streaming services with advances in the undisclosed millions, which is virtually the same as selling music in bulk; they receive these healthy licensing fees to cover all activity in a given period rather than allowing Streaming services to 'pay as they go.' 'Artists are up in arms, many are opting out of streaming services,' writes Frank. 'Lost in that noise is a voice that is seldom heard: that of the record companies. There's good reason for that: they're making more money from streaming and the future looks extremely bright for them.' The average 'premium' subscription customer in the U.S. was worth about $16 a year to a major record company, while the average buyer of digital downloads or physical music was worth about $14. Thus, year over year, the premium subscriber was worth nearly 15% more than the person who bought music either digitally or physically."
The name of the game, boy (Score:3, Funny)
We call it Riding the Gravy Train.
That is why I pirate sheet music (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Someone please (Score:4, Funny)
no, because I stream all my music anyways so there's no need to back it up to disk.
Re:"Streaming" is not new.. and it used to be free (Score:5, Funny)
a bonus for broadcast, you get 20 mins of some idiot talking every hour, plus 20 mins of commercials. value added!