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Math-checking the testimony on Capital Hill in “How Much For A Song?: The...
According to Billboard, SONGS Publishing CEO Matt Pincus provided some mathematical evidence before members of Congress today in support of his claim that “This rate of money [from performances on...
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Earth to the US Music Industry: 99.9% of your revenues now come from Digital...
Let’s just be honest. If there were any industry that prefers to deny reality it is the music industry.There may be no greater evidence of the claim above than the following statement from Cary...
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0.02%: the possible Sales-to-Spins conversion rate of US Radio
It has often been said, I don’t know by whom, that the power of Radio is it’s ability to sell music. The purpose of this post is to surface any possible evidence of, if not simply a measure of, this...
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Redistributing the streaming wealth: Why listening hours not artist...
The question of just how to distribute the royalty dollars from music services has moved from a back-office thought exercise to an out-in-the-open debate.Moving forward in this debate is the argument...
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Redistributing the streaming wealth: Understanding the links between...
The purpose of this post (which will be released as a Grey Paper) is to further inform the ongoing discussion over how best to distribute the royalties from subscription-bases music services. Over the...
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$0.0000955: The value of a Spin, per Listener, to Songwriters on US Radio in...
Now that ASCAP and BMI have revealed their revenues for 2014, and we have some data on SESAC (thanks to Moody’s), we can estimate the value of a Spin, per listener, to Songwriters from performances on...
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Everything you need to know about why the Apple Brand may not be enough to...
Tomorrow, “it” happens. Apple’s long-awaited and much-hyped music service, Apple Music, will launch.Along the way, we have had to endure near continuous use of the phrase “Move the Needle” from a music...
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Popularity versus Demand: Looking further into the fair distribution of...
This post will be the last in a series of three conversations on the ways in which artist popularity, listener demand, and time spent listening impact any redistribution of wealth that could occur when...
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Flood Stage Economics: The subtle and often unspoken dangers in the...
Recent work by Dr. Aguiar and Dr. Waldfogel has made its way from a working paper to a technical report released by the Institute for Prospective Technological Studies, one of the Joint Research...
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Do Freemium music services offer greater revenue per user than the freemium...
Do Freemium music services offer greater revenue per user than the freemium combo of Radio and Sales?The purpose of this story is rather simple:First, let’s treat the music industry like a “freemium”...
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