Music Think Tank

> For example, Spotify says that its average payout for a stream to labels and publishers is between $0.006 and $0.0084 but Information Is Beautiful suggests that the average payment to an artist from the label portion of that is $0.001128 – this being what a signed artist receives after the label's share https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/apr/03/how-much-musicians-… This seems to clear it up > We aggregate all of this revenue from these two streams, and distribute back 70% in royalties based on a pro rata share in accordance with the popularity of a piece of music. For example, if one of your songs has been streamed 1% of the total number of streams in a month, you will get 1% of the 70% of royalties we pay out to rights holders. http://www.musicthinktank.com/mtt-open/how-does-spotify-pay-artists-an… If the latter is true, let’s assume everyone pays $15 a month for Spotify and there’s 1 million subscribers each listening to 1000 songs a month 900k listen to Ed Sheeran exclusively 1000 times 100k listen 1 times to each of 100 indie bands. Total revenue $15m Total royalties $10m Ed Sheehan gets 900m listens Each indie band gets 100k listens - total 10m listens Ed Sheehan gets $9.9m Each indie band gets $1k You’d think that the $15 the Indy subscriber would pay would go equally to the 100 bands - giving 15k per band, and 9.4m for Ed, but it apparently doesn’t work that way. Those who binge listen are…

> Lets assume you were able to capture even 0.01% of googles customers ... Reminds me of this story: http://www.musicthinktank.com/blog/and-if-only-1-of-those-people.html

Why? 1. to put ads on the giant armada site and collectively make a little money? 2. to make sure your blog posts are read by people of like-minds? It seems that Hacker News is already taking care of #2, so is the only reason #1? I'd be glad to cross-post to the giant armada when they seem of interest to other hackers/entrepreneurs. But I'll still be posting everything on my own site. This is what I do at MusicThinkTank - maybe a similar idea. Example: http://www.musicthinktank.com/blog/after-15-years-of-practice.html There my music-focused posts get another audience that isn't checking my own personal site. But then, if there was a Hacker News type site for “music think tank” type people, there wouldn't be a need for musicthinktank.com. So is it just for the money?