[troutman]

Originally Posted by Burninator

www.rdio.com

$5 a month and I have unlimited access to all the music I want.* I haven't illegally downloaded any music since I signed up several months ago. Can't speak highly enough of it. I'm sure the other streaming music services out there are the same.

However I don't really see how much money gets back to the artists. A typically album costs $10, I pay half that and listen to dozens of albums a month. I suppose it's better than nothing.


*Well almost. They don't have everything. But their selection is massive.

From post #3

The enemy is Spotify, MOG, Rdio et al who license entire music catalogs from labels at great cost. The labels (in my case Warner Bros) then pay a pittance in royalties to the artists. The winners in this vast charade are the labels and venture capitalists.

Believe me I know. I recently received a royalty statement from Warner Bros in which I found that one of our most popular songs, ‘Natural’s Not In It’ had been streamed or downloaded through paid online services, almost 7000 times. That netted me $17.35. Now that was just one song out of our entire Gang of Four catalog. The statement amount in total, my share, came to $21.08. There was a big, red-inked stamped message on the last page that read, “Under $25 do not pay.”