On Fri, 9 Dec 2005, Al Petfield wrote:
I think it would be great if there was a meritocracy whereby artists were paid in proportion to their popularity but I don't suppose record companies would be too happy to see the link between artist and audience become so transparent!
The "unit" based music/video industry already sort of has this. Its called a "bargain bin" and contains stuff like the Wurzels, C&W music, unknown US action movie DVDs, etc that folk won't stump up large bundles of cash to listen to/watch.
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