How Much Money Is Music Streaming Actually Worth?

There’s a lot of confusion in the marketplace about how much a music stream is worth. To say that it’s a complicated issue is an understatement.

It depends upon all of the following factors:

• What type of service (interactive like Spotify, or non-interactive like Pandora)

• Which tier (free or paid subscription)

• Which territory it’s played in (they all pay different royalty rates)

• Your marketshare (on Spotify you get paid more if you get played more)

As you can see, it’s impossible to say exactly what each stream is really worth, and the best we can do is get an average. Billboard has done just that with a great infographic that gives you an approximate worth of a stream coming from Spotify and Pandora.

How Much Money Is Music Streaming Actually Worth? [INFOGRAPHIC] – hypebot.

How Popular Music’s Lyrics Perpetuate American Idiocy

Claire Bernish
May 20, 2015

(ANTIMEDIA) A recent study served to confirm the patently obvious: song lyrics for the most popular genres of music are ridiculously obtuse — and getting worse over time. Though this might not be a revelation, the figures are distressing indicators of both an intellectually vapid societal and cultural future as well as its apparent inevitability.

Don’t Give Apple Too Much Credit for Bowing to Taylor Swift | WIRED

Eddy Cue unveils Apple Music at the Apple World Wide Developers Conference in San Francisco, June 8, 2015. DAVID PAUL MORRIS/BLOOMBERG/GETTY IMAGES

APPLE IS SKILLED at attracting praise. Often, the tech giant deserves that praise. This is not one of those times.

On Sunday, high-ranking Apple exec Eddy Cue tweeted that the company would, in fact, pay royalties to musicians during the three-month free trial period of its new music platform Apple Music. This decision was a reversal of an earlier policy that became the center of controversy this weekend when megastar Taylor Swift wrote a blog post slamming Apple for its plan not to pay artists while Apple Music was in its trial phase. “It is unfair to ask anyone to work for nothing,” Swift said, adding that she would be withholding her most recent album, 1989—that of “Shake It Off” fame—from Apple Music.

Stelth, solo | Dayton City Paper

LUMINEERS’ STELTH ULVANG BRINGS HIS OWN SONGS TO OHIO

By Tim Anderl
Photo: Stelth Ulvang will perform at Canal Public House on March 11; photo: Norah Hoover

Although the name Stelth Ulvang may not be familiar, his performance with celebrated Denver, Colorado-based folk rockers The Lumineers probably is. The band’s self-titled debut album, released in mid-2012 peaked at number two on the Billboard charts in early 2013 and has been certified platinum in the U.S. As a result, they were nominated for both Billboard Music Awards and Grammy Awards.