I work with a distributor, who makes my music available on Spotify, iTunes, Amazon, etc. The amounts received by the distributor are passed onto me transparently. The distributor's profit comes from the amount charged for each album's distribution, and also the cut they take from direct sales. Spotify, MediaNet, and Napster are three of the worst.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu <noozguru@...> wrote: > > Pays artists or publishers? iTunes would be paying the record publisher > in most cases unless the artist is a self-publisher. Same should be > true for Spotify. Artists were generally screwed by record companies > anyway. Recordings have long been thought of as a way to get people to > your concerts where you make the real money though back in the day one > could make some good money on record and mechanical royalties. As a > musician I was amazed at how important people thought music was when > Napster popped up. You'd think they wouldn't have cut the arts from the > school curriculum. > > On 07/12/2013 12:34 AM, doctordumbass@... wrote: > > Spotify pays artists 8/1000th's of a cent(!), as a royalty per song sale. > > That compares to iTunes, which pays about 70 cents per song. Cheap bastards > > masquerading as hipsters. > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu <noozguru@> wrote: > >> How many of these did you misquote? In some cases the bands I was in > >> liked to misquote and often with even worse misquotes. :-D > >> > >> http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/music/2013/07/11/spotify-wrong-song-lyrics/2506899/ > >> > > > > >
