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What did streaming do to the people who actually make things?: Market evolutionists
No label, no manager, no permission $14,000 a month. 2,100 subscribers. No label. No publishing deal. No manager taking 15 percent. A Nashville songwriter who left her contract in 2020 after calculating her advance worked out to $3,000 per song with no backend.... What did streaming do to the people who actually make things?: Platform defenders
Two billion One hundred and eighty-four markets. Before streaming, roughly 500 million people had affordable legal access to recorded music. Today: over two billion. A seventeen-year-old in Nairobi has the same library as a seventeen-year-old in Nashville.... What did streaming do to the people who actually make things?: Creator advocates
The receipts $0.003 per stream. That is what Damon Krukowski earned per Spotify play in 2012. His song "Tugboat" — 7,800 streams in one quarter — earned $21.89.... What did streaming do to the people who actually make things?: The Story
$753 Zoë Keating is a cellist who loops her own instrument live. In 2019, she posted a document that read like something recovered from the ruins of a civilization that forgot how to pay people. Spotify: $753 for 206,011 plays....